Publications

Manuscripts

Roberts, G., & Fedzechkina, M. (under review). Social biases modulate the loss of redundant forms in the cultural evolution of language.

Fedzechkina, M. & Jaeger T.F. (in prep). Effort vs. robust information transmission in language change.

Martin, J., Fedzechkina, M., Pajak, B., & Jaeger T.F. (in prep). L1 distance effects on L2 word order acquisition: A miniature language study.

2020

Fedzechkina, M. & Roberts, G. (2020). Learners sacrifice robust communication as a result of a social bias. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Hall Hartley, L. Fedzechkina, M. (2020). Learners’ bias to balance production effort against message uncertainty is independent of their native language. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Zhao, Y. Fedzechkina, M. (2020). Learners’ harmonic preferences are modulated by lexical retrieval difficulty. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.

2018

Fedzechkina, M., Chu, B., & Jaeger T.F. (2018). Human information processing shapes language change. Psychological Science.

2017

2016

Fedzechkina, M., Newport, E.L., & Jaeger T.F. (2016). The miniature artificial language learning paradigm as a complement to typological data.In Ortega, L., Tyler, A., Park, H. I., Uno, M. (Eds.). The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism. Georgetown: GUP.

2015

Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Trueswell, J.C. (2015). Production is biased to provide informative cues early: Evidence from miniature artificial languages. Proceedings of CogSci 2015.

2014

Fedzechkina, M. (2014). Communicative efficiency, language learning, and language universals. PhD dissertation, University of Rochester.

2013

Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2013). Communicative biases shape structures of newly acquired languages. Proceedings of CogSci 2013.

2012

Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2012). Language learners restructure their input to facilitate efficient communications. PNAS.

2011

Fedzechkina, M., Jaeger T.F., & Newport, E.L. (2011). Functional biases in language learning: Evidence from word order and case-marking interaction. Proceedings of CogSci 2011.