After more than two years in the making, my new book w/@NickJChater THE LANGUAGE GAME is out today with @BasicBooks in the US, reflecting the last 25 years of progress in the language sciences.Read it to learn more about. 1/4.

Very honored to visit @ucmerced next week to receive the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award. I'll deliver both a talk in the Dept of Cognitive & Information Science , "The Conversational Nature of Language", + a public lecture on The Language Game.

Looking forward to giving a keynote on "The Importance of Feedback in Language Learning: Insights from Artificial Language Learning and Large Language Models" on November 3rd, with implications for L2 learning.

I had a wonderful time talking about "Language Evolution through the Bottleneck: From Milliseconds to Millennia" as part of the Language Circle speaker series. Topics included #LanguageEvolution #LanguageAcquisition #Chunking.You can watch the talk here 👀.

RT @interact_minds: Dont miss this IMC Talk tomorrow 11am by @MH_Christiansen! All are welcome (also online):. The Importance of Feedback i….

Happy to report that @falk_huettig's and my Letter in Cognitive Science is out! . LLMs are likely to threaten literacy acquisition but they might also support it. Cognitive Science can help steer the outcome in the right direction! . Read it for free here:

RT @falk_huettig: (1) In a letter to the journal Cognitive Science @MH_Christiansen and I ask “Can large language models counter the recent….

RT @tallinzen: "for native speakers there are no easy and hard languages" . (the slide is from @MH_Christiansen)

As the sun sets on a very successful and thoroughly interesting #IASL24, we look forward to seeing everyone again in 2026 for #IASL26. Safe travels

The last afternoon session of #IASL24 begins with @BozenaPajak from @duolingo who talks about maximizing statistical learning for education

The final day of #IASL24 starts off with @RTreiman talking about statistical learning in the real-world context of reading and its limitations

Tom Griffiths gets #IASL24 started with a keynote about how Large Language Models might be reconciled with Bayesian statistics

Beautiful morning to kick of the Fifth Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning in San Sebastián, Spain.#IASL24

And a final bonus meme because it made me laugh 🤣. Thanks to all my students in this year's psych of language class for their great humor and good command of the class material!.4/4

#3 relates to our discussion of gestural vs. vocal origin of language, where we talked about Tomasello's thought experiment in which kids either could communicate only using gestures (without sounds) or only using (non-speech) vocalizations (no gestures). Go for both?.3/4

#2 is memefying the results from the Slobin & Bever (1982) study of the acquisition of word order and inflections in different languages. Kids learning Serbo-Croatian were behind because of they have to pay attention to both word order and case (though Turkish kids did fine).2/4

Every year at the end of my Psych of Language class, I ask my students to make memes about what they've learned. They vote for the best ones. Here are top-3 memes:.#1 is a new take on Quine's classic gavagai problem (warning: philosophical puzzles can make you lose sleep).1/4

RT @CSL_Lab: Big congrats 🥳 to @CSL_Lab's Calen MacDonald @calencain who gave a splendid 2nd-year talk last week on his work on the role of….

RT @CSL_Lab: Congrats to @CSL_Lab's @sereyuwang for giving a great 4th-year talk about her work on the role of chunking in second-language….

RT @satoh_naoto7: Interview with Dr. @MH_Christiansen , Professor @CSL_Lab @Cornell , on "Transformative Solutions for Language Learning St….

RT @beni_salgado: 2 libros. The mind is flat! Que é o q nos permite inventar, enganar, imaxinar? De q modo o reconstruímos todo sobre a ma….