Phubbing behavior in conversations and its relation to perceived conversation intimacy and distraction: An exploratory observation study

MMPV Abeele, AT Hendrickson, MMH Pollmann… - Computers in Human …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This study examines the occurrence, frequency and duration of co-present phone use, also
known as 'phubbing'behavior, during a dyadic conversation and its association with …

What have we learned from 15 years of research on cross-situational word learning? A focused review

TC Roembke, ME Simonetti, I Koch… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
In 2007 and 2008, Yu and Smith published their seminal studies on cross-situational word
learning (CSWL) in adults and infants, showing that word-object-map**s can be acquired …

Cultural evolution creates the statistical structure of language

I Arnon, S Kirby - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Human language is unique in its structure: language is made up of parts that can be
recombined in a productive way. The parts are not given but have to be discovered by …

The infant's view redefines the problem of referential uncertainty in early word learning

C Yu, Y Zhang, LK Slone, LB Smith - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021‏ - pnas.org
The learning of first object names is deemed a hard problem due to the uncertainty inherent
in map** a heard name to the intended referent in a cluttered and variable world …

The learnability consequences of Zipfian distributions in language

O Lavi-Rotbain, I Arnon - Cognition, 2022‏ - Elsevier
While the languages of the world differ in many respects, they share certain commonalties,
which can provide insight on our shared cognition. Here, we explore the learnability …

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure

I Arnon, S Kirby, JA Allen, C Garrigue, EL Carroll… - Science, 2025‏ - science.org
Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also
culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a …

Transparency at the source: Evaluating and interpreting language models with access to the true distribution

J Jumelet, W Zuidema - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.14840, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
We present a setup for training, evaluating and interpreting neural language models, that
uses artificial, language-like data. The data is generated using a massive probabilistic …

Zipfian distributions in child-directed speech

O Lavi-Rotbain, I Arnon - Open Mind, 2023‏ - direct.mit.edu
Across languages, word frequency and rank follow a power law relation, forming a
distribution known as the Zipfian distribution. There is growing experimental evidence that …

Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages: A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle

É Enguehard, B Spector - Semantics and Pragmatics, 2021‏ - hal.science
Across languages, certain logically natural concepts are not lexicalized, even though they
can be expressed by complex expressions. This is for instance the case for the quantifier not …

Daylong mobile audio recordings reveal multitimescale dynamics in infants' vocal productions and auditory experiences

AS Warlaumont, K Sobowale… - Current directions in …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The sounds of human infancy—baby babbling, adult talking, lullaby singing, and more—
fluctuate over time. Infant-friendly wearable audio recorders can now capture very large …