Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

Postdoctoral Fellow at @PsychPrinceton, studying early language and communicative development in human infants. stevenlelmlinger.com Princeton, NJ Joined July 2019

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Elena Luchkina @ElenaLuchkina

4 months ago

Our special issue on Social Contingency is out in @RSocPublishing ! Two years of hard work by our authors, reviewers, and editors have paid off. We are thrilled to share a phenomenal set of empirical, theoretical, and review papers with you. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381…

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

4 months ago

12/12 When comparing across languages and species, learning faster vocal communication systems may well show a stronger developmental reliance on social feedback, which guides learners to compress their sequences into the range expected by their future conversation partners.

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

4 months ago

11/12 Our findings suggest that social feedback is more efficacious than previously imagined – it even guides improvements in fundamental vocal timing.

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

4 months ago

1/12 Animals often communicate in phrases with sequential structure. Vocal learners, however, are often studied one note or syllable at a time. What are the origins of vocal sequences in animals that learn vocal communication? Find out in our new paper spanning birds+babies🧵

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

a year ago

We found a non-obvious pathway to robust language learnability across cultures & languages. Future work will assess just how widespread this pathway is across the world’s languages, and the role that contingent simplification plays in language development. 9/9

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

a year ago

Languages don't only become learnable over evolution, they’re also learnable at precise moments during language development. Children actively shape their own learning input, eliciting learnable speech during vocal turn-taking, the central context of language use. 8/9

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

a year ago

In response to their child’s immature speech, caregivers produce fewer unique words, shorter utterances and more single-word utterances compared to caregivers’ baseline speech complexity. We call this the simplification effect of contingent speech. 3/9

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Steven Elmlinger @ElmlingerSteven

a year ago

w/ @MikeHGoldstein & @levy_jacob we show that kid’s immature vocalizations & speech actively elicit language from caregivers that is linguistically simplified & learnable. We find this in 13 languages, showing a robust social pathway for making language learning easier to do 2/9