Morten H. Christiansen
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell
External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
- email : mhc27@cornell.edu
- fax : 607-255-8433
- phone : 607-255-3570
- 228 Uris Hall
- Cornell University
- Ithaca NY 14853-7601
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Office Hours:
T 12:00 - 1:25 PM
Interests
Acquisition, processing and evolution of language; statistical learning of sequential structure; computational models of language and statistical learning; genetics of language, neurophysiological measures (ERP) of statistical learning and language; cognitive science/neuroscience.
Now recruiting graduate students for IMAGINE, the Ithaca-Manhattan Graduate Initiative in Neuroscience. This NIH-funded training program is jointly sponsored by Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College.
Perception, Cognition & Development
Selected Publications
- Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press). Language acquisition meets language evolution. Cognitive Science. download
- Fitneva, S.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (in press). From sound to syntax: Phonological
constraints on children’s lexical categorization of new words. Journal of Child Language. download
- Chater, N., Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Restrictions on biological adaptation in language
evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 1015-1020.
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- Christiansen, M.H., Onnis, L. & Hockema, S.A. (2009). The secret is in the sound: From unsegmented
speech to lexical categories. Developmental Science, 12, 388-395. download
- Wells, J., Christiansen, M.H., Race, D.S., Acheson, D. & MacDonald, M.C. (2009). Experience and
sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 250-271. download
- Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 489-558 [target article with 28 peer commentaries and authors’ response]. download
- Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2007). The Phonological-Distributional Coherence Hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition. Cognitive Psychology, 55, 259-305. download
- Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 1-23. download
- Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). Statistical learning within and between modalities: Pitting abstract against stimulus specific representations. Psychological Science, 17, 905-912. download
- Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 12203-12208. download
- Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Modality constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 24-39. download
- Curtin, S., Mintz, T.H. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition, 96, 233-262. download
- MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54. download
- Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance. Cognitive Science, 23, 157-205. download
- Christiansen, M.H., Allen, J. & Seidenberg, M.S. (1998). Learning to segment speech using multiple cues: A connectionist model. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 221-268. download
Links
- Cognitive Science @ Cornell
The Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University
- Language Universals -- edited by M.H. Christiansen, C. Collins & S. Edelman
The publisher's web page for the recent edited volume on language universals.
- Language Evolution -- edited by M.H. Christiansen & S. Kirby
The publisher's web page for this edited volume on language evolution.
- Connectionist Psycholinguistics -- edited by M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater
The publisher's web page for this edited volume on connectionist psycholinguistics.
- Psychology 2150: Psychology of Language
also Cognitive Science 2150 and Linguistics 2215
Spring 2009 information. Taught Spring semesters. - Psychology 4270/6270: Evolution of Language
also Cognitive Science 4270
Fall 2009 information. Taught Fall semester in odd years. - Psychology 4280/6280: Connectionist Psycholinguistics
also Cognitive Science 4280 and Linguistics 4428/6628
Fall 2008 information. Taught Fall semester in even years.
updated on Wednesday, Sep 23 2009 @ 3:19pm