Publications

Bouton, S., Chambon, V., Golestani, N., Formisano, E., Proix, T. & Giraud, A. (2026). Aligning statistical models with inference goals in the neuroscience of language: A dual-dependency taxonomy. Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 4 IMAG.a.1132. doi:10.1162/IMAG.a.1132

Brunsberg, S. & Ramus, F. (2026). Technical comment on Romero, A., Blanch, A., & Chopik, W. J. (2026). Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees. Personality and Individual Differences, 257, 113790. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2026.113790

Peperkamp, S. & Sundara, M. (2026). Reassessing the labial-coronal asymmetry in infants’ discrimination of medial consonants. Language Development Research, 6(1). doi:10.34842/LDR2025-971

XIAO, H., Cremers, A., Straboni, C., Strickland, B. & Peperkamp, S. (2026). The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Conceptualization Is Weak and Language-Dependent. Cognitive science, 50(1), e70176. doi:10.1111/cogs.70176

Bruneau-Bongard, J., Chemla, E. & Brochhagen, T. (2025). Assessing Pressures Shaping Natural Language Lexica. Cognitive science, 49(12), e70145. doi:10.1111/cogs.70145

Cao, A., Lewis, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A. & C Frank, M. (2025). Estimating Age-Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta-)Meta-Analysis. Developmental science, 28(4), e70028. doi:10.1111/desc.70028

Dautriche, I. & Chemla, E. (2025). Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants. Communications psychology, 3(1), 37. doi:10.1038/s44271-025-00222-9

Guerin, N., Steinert-Threlkeld, S., J Ryder, R. & Chemla, E. (2025). Second-Order Zipf’s Law for Word Co-Occurrences . , 9, 1138–1157. doi:10.1162/opmi.a.8/132959

Lovčević, I., Benders, T., Tsuji, S. & Fusaroli, R. (2025). Acoustic exaggeration of vowels in infant-directed speech: A multimethod meta-analytic review. Psychological bulletin, 151(6), 669-695. doi:10.1037/bul0000479

Salis, A., Molina, A., Mephane-Montel, L. , Chaine, A. , Chemla, E. & Schlenker, P. (2025). No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls. International journal of behavioural ethology, e13557. doi:10.1111/eth.13557

Tsuji, S., Alonso, F., Hagihara, H., Kimura, N., Polka, L. & Lovčević, I. (2025). Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies. Frontiers in neural circuits, 19. doi:10.3389/fncir.2025.1553918

Bade, N., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2024). Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions. Nat Lang Semantics, 32(4), 473-503. doi:10.1007/s11050-024-09224-5

Cauté, M., Chemla, E. & Schlenker, P. (2024). Inconsistent effects of components as evidence for non-compositionality in chimpanzee face-gesture combinations? A response to Oña et al (2019) PeerJ, 12, e16800 . doi:10.7717/peerj.16800

Coye, C. , Veselinović, D., Candiotti, A. , Schlenker, P., Lemasson, A. & Chemla, E. (2024). Female Diana Monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) Have Complex Calls. Linguistic Inquiry, ., 1-10. doi:10.1162/ling_a_00535

Geraci, C., Pasalskaya, L. & Peperkamp, S. (2024). Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations. Linguistics Vanguard : a Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, . doi:10.1515/lingvan-2024-0070

Guerin, N., Steinert{-}threlkeld, S. & Chemla, E. (2024). The Impact of Syntactic and Semantic Proximity on Machine Translation with Back-Translation. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 1. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2403.18031

Lovčević, I. & Tsuji, S. (2024). The developmental pattern of native and non-native speech perception during the 1st year of life in Japanese infants. Infant behavior & development, 76(101977). doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101977

Nur Lan, Chemla, E. & Katzir, R. (2024). Large Language Models and the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus. Linguistic Inquiry, 1, 1-28. doi:10.1162/ling_a_00533

RÉ, B. , Szmuc, D. , Chemla, E. & Egré, P. (2024). ON THREE-VALUED PRESENTATIONS OF CLASSICAL LOGIC. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 17(3), 682-704. doi:10.1017/S1755020323000114

Salis, A., Badaire, F., Coye, C. , Leroux, M., Lengagne , T., Schlenker, P. & Chemla, E. (2024). Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: Exploring featural decoding in great tits. Animal Behaviour, 216, 63-71. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.07.020

Schlenker, P., Salis, A., Leroux, M., Coye, C. , Rizzi, L., Steinert-Threlkeld, S. & Chemla, E. (2024). Minimal Compositionality versus Bird Implicatures: two theories of ABC-D sequences in Japanese tits. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, . doi:10.1111/brv.13068

Schlenker, P., Bonnet, M. , Lamberton, J., Chemla, E., Santoro, M. & Geraci, C. (2024). Iconic Syntax: sign language classifier predicates and gesture sequences. Linguistics and Philosophy, 47(1), 77-147. doi:10.1007/s10988-023-09388-z

Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P. & Giavazzi, M. (2024). Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian. Journal of Phonetics, 108(101371). doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101371

Zhang, H., Chemla, E., PELOFI, C. & Bonnasse-Gahot, L. (2024). Melodic contour supersedes short-term statistical learning in expressive accentuation. PloS one, 19(11), e0312883. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312883

Barbir, M., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A. & Christophe, A. (2023). Rapid infant learning of syntactic-semantic links. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(1), e2209153119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2209153119

Chemla, E., Charnavel , I., Dautriche, I., Embick, D., Lerdahl, F., Patel-Grosz, P., Poeppel, D. & Schlenker, P. (2023). Formal Models at the Core. Cognitive science, 47(3), e13267. doi:10.1111/cogs.13267

Da Re, B. , Szmuc, D. , Chemla, E. & Egré, P. (2023). On three-valued presentations of classical logic. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 1-23. doi:10.1017/S1755020323000114

Dailey, M., Straboni, C. & Peperkamp, S. (2023). Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition: French listeners’ processing of English vowel nasalization. Second Language Research. doi:10.1177/02676583231181472

Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., Dautriche, I. & Christophe, A. (2023). There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech. Journal of child language, 1-5. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000181

Melnik, G. , Turnbull, R. & Peperkamp, S. (2023). On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast. Second Language Research, ., 1–25. doi:.o0r.g1/107.171/0772/6072675685382302909888061