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Cognitive Science of Language Lab

@csl-lab.bsky.social
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In the CSL-Lab at Cornell, we study the evolution, acquisition and processing of language from a cognitive science perspective. Directed by Morten H. Christiansen. Website: csl-lab.psych.cornell.edu

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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New paper in Cognitive Science from CSL Lab's Cristian Rivera and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social showing that chunking in language is not a unitary skill onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... OA: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Is Chunking Ability Unitary Across Levels of Linguistic Representation?
Much like with statistical learning, there is a tendency in the cognitive and language science literature to treat chunking as a unitary, domain-general ability that operates fairly similarly across ...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We're hoping to welcome a New PhD student F27. @mh-christiansen.bsky.social is looking for someone interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email him if interested
Illustration of two people conversing with each other, with  interpretation through pattern recognition involving the integration of multiple cues, including social cues (pointing), the visual environment, what they know about the person they’re talking with, knowledge about the world, prior discourse, cultural expectations, and communicative goals.
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CSL Lab alumni @fffrinsel.bsky.social is delivering her talk about using eye tracking to study cue integration during real-time statistical learning at the conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning #IASL26
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CSL alumna @erin-isbilen.bsky.social answering questions about her presentation on word search as a measure of statistical learning at the SL conference in San Sebastián #IASL26
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
CSL lab member Cris Rivera presenting his work showing that there’s not a single uniform statically-based chunking mechanism at the SL conference in San Sebastián #IASL26
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
CSL lab member Kate Constant presenting her excellent honors thesis work on the effect of head trauma on statistical learning at the SL conference #IASL26 in San Sebastián
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🥳 Congrats to CSL Lab member, Kate Constan, who presented her excellent Cognitive Science honors project "The Impacts of Impact: Head Trauma’s Relationship to Statistical Learning" at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's Spring Symposium. 👏 Next, Kate will present her work at #IASL26 in June
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
📣 Another BBS paper from the CSL Lab! This paper w/alumni @dr-severinehex.bsky.social and @erin-isbilen.bsky.social + Daniel Rubenstein and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social argues that multimodality is key to safeguarding honesty in communication in humans and other animals 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Exciting new paper from the CSL Lab by @yngwienielsen.bsky.social and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social showing that we mentally represent abstract non-hierarchical structure during language use. Here's a short write-up about the paper: 1/2 news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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Discovery challenges assumptions about the structure of language | Cornell Chronicle
We can improvise new sentences so readily, language scientists believe, because we have acquired mental representations of the patterns of language that allow us to combine words into sentences.
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social is featured in a Danish article, discussing what bird alarm calls and Large Language Models can tell us about the evolution of human language and whether our unique communicative abilities relies on an innate language module blog.minlaering.dk/blogindlaeg/...
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AI gør op med myten om vores indre
Er menneskets unikke kommunikationsevne en evolutionær biologisk gave eller kulturelt opbygget over tid?
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Many congrats to Dr. Serene Wang @sere-yu-wang.bsky.social -- the newest PhD to come out of the @csl-lab.bsky.social. 🥳 She expertly defended her dissertation on "Chunking In the Second Language: Connecting Sentence Processing, Proficiency, and Memory Outcomes" 👏
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📣 New publication from the CSL Lab arguing that Large Language Models need interaction and feedback to become human-like in their production of grammatical language -- just like people. Read the paper for free 👇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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LLMs highlight the importance of interaction in human language learning
Recent years have seen large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive performance with core linguistic abilities. This can be taken as a demonstration that, contrary to long-held assumptions about in...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📣 If you're at #AMLaP2025 in Prague, come see the poster #184 by CSL Lab's Cris Rivera and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social: 👉 "Comparing natural language statistical learning and human intuition for chunking language" 🗓️ Thursday afternoon (Sept 4), 17:20-18:50
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
📣Come see the two posters from the CSL Lab at #CogSci2025! 👀 👉 @elmlingersteven.bsky.social is presenting his on Friday 10:30AM-12PM 👉 Calen MacDonald is presenting his on Saturday 1-2:15PM
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Want a short and accessible introduction to #LanguageEvolution? 🤔 👀 Take a look as CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social new contribution to the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Get up to speed in about 1K words—check out the references for more in-depth info oecs.mit.edu/pub/18miikqb...
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Language Evolution
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📣 New paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social by CSL-Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and @yngwienielsen.bsky.social reappraising what structural priming tells us about the representation of language: it's about context — not grammar. Free download until Aug 8: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lIFK4sIRv...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New paper from CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and colleagues, rethinking the goal of #StatisticalLearning as providing the baseline against which novelty can be detected by a cognitive information foraging system doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In September 2024, CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social gave a talk in the Language Circle series on how chunking affects language across multiple timescales with implications for the nature of language processing, acquisition, and evolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD1... Abstract in 🧵 1/4
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New CSL-Lab paper out by alumni Pablo Contreras Kallens and @mh-christiansen.bsky.social: Distributional Semantics: Meaning Through Culture and Interaction (including discussions of meaning in LLMs) 👉 Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you're at #psynom24 go see the poster by CSL-Lab's Serene Wang about how to best measure real-time language skills: "Utterance Recall as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency: Cross-Linguistic Applicability and Fine-Grained Automatic Scoring" # 7028 in the poster session tonight, 7:45-9:15PM.
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Cognitive Science of Language Lab @csl-lab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Very happy for the CSL Lab to have joined bluesky! Look here for posts about the various lab members' papers and presentations. 😀 More to come soon! 👀
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