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2024
Tenenbaum, E., Stone, C., Vu, M. H., Hare, M., Gilyard, K. R., Arunachalam, S., Bergelson, E., Bishop, S., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Kline Struhl, M., Landa, R. J., Lew-Williams, C., Libertus, M. E., Luyster, R. J., Markant, J., Sabatos-DeVito, M., Sheinkopf, S. J., Wagner, J. B., Park, K., Soderling, A. I., Waterman, A. K., Grapel, J. N., Bermano, A., Erel, Y., & Jeste, S. (in press). Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE): Scalable online replications of key findings in infant cognitive development. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001849
Fitch, A., Lieberman, A. M., Frank, M. C., Brough, J., Valleau, M., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). Referential transparency of verbs in child-directed input by Japanese and American caregivers. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000382
Arunachalam, S., Steele, A., Pelletier, T., Steele, A., & Luyster, R. J. (2024). Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children. Autism Research, 17(5), 955-971. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3121
Gangopadhyay, I., Fulford, D., Corriveau, K., Mow, J., Li, P. H., & Arunachalam, S. (2024). Pupils dilate more to harder vocabulary words than easier ones. Cognitive Science, 48, e13556. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13446
Svaldi, C., Kohnen, S., Robidoux, S., Vos, K., Reinders, A., Arunachalam, S., Jonkers, R., & de Aguiar, V. (2024). Spoken verb learning in children with language disorder. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 242, 105881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105881
2023
Artis, J. and Arunachalam, S. (2023). Semantic and syntactic properties of words and the receptive–expressive gap in autistic and non-autistic children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(5), 1771-1791. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_jslhr-22-00369
Shi, H., He, A. X., Song, H. J., Jin, K. S., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). Learning verbs in English and Korean: The roles of word order and argument drop. Language Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2023.2165926
Arunachalam, S., Bednar, N., Burns, L., Cobo Nieto, M., & Wagner, L. (2023). Show don’t tell: Engaging the public in language science through a participatory experiment. Language 99(1), e1-e17. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.0001.
Luyster, R., Leiwant, I., & Arunachalam, S. (2023). Frequency, Form, and Function of Dyadic Questions in Children With Autism: A CHILDES Corpus Study. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 44(3), 163-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/15257401221111336
Horvath, S., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: Advances and cautionary tales. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
He, A. X., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). Event endstate encoding in 13-month-olds–Completed and non-completed events are different. Language and Cognition.
2022
Arunachalam, S., Deen, K. U., Huang, Y., Lidz, J., Miller, K., Ota, M., & Szendroi, K. (in press). Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221096083
He, A. X., Luyster, R. J., & Arunachalam, S. (in press). Parental tuning of language input to autistic and nonspectrum children. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.954983
Martin, F., & Arunachalam, S. (In press). Optional ‘se’ constructions and flavours of applicatives in Spanish. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory (RLLT) 18, Isogloss. https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n4-martin-arunachalam
Altmiller, R., Corriveau, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2022). Frequency of passive voice in children’s books. In: Gong, Y., & Kpogo, F. (eds.), BUCLD 46: Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-02.pdf
Arunachalam, S., Avtushka, V., Luyster, R. J., & Guthrie, W. (2022). Consistency and inconsistency in caregiver reporting of vocabulary. Language Learning and Development, 18(1), 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1931233
2021
Fitch, A., Arunachalam, S., & Lieberman, A. M. (2021). Mapping word to world in ASL: Evidence from a human simulation paradigm. Cognitive Science, 45, e13061. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13061
Zane, E., Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. (2021). Personal pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5(3), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-021-00087-4
Horvath, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2021). Repetition Versus Variability in Verb Learning: Sometimes Less Is More. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00091
Davies, C., Lingwood, J., Ivanova, B., & Arunachalam, S. (2021).Three-year-olds’ comprehension of contrastive and descriptive adjectives: Evidence for contrastive inference. Cognition, 212, 104707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104707
Arunachalam, S., Artis, J., & Luyster, R. (2021). Moving beyond binaries: Appreciating the complexities of autism and language learning (Response to Kissine). Language, 97(3), e161-e168. doi: 10.1353/lan.2021.0056
Bednar, N., Arunachalam, S., & Wagner, L. (2021). Improving science trust and attitudes through DIY citizen science. Connected Science Learning, 3(3). https://www.nsta.org/improving-science-trust-and-attitudes-through-diy-citizen-science
Zane, E., Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. (2020). Caregiver-reported pronominal errors made by children with and without autism spectrum disorder. In 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development (BUCLD).
2020
Koenig, A., Arunachalam, S., & Saudino, K. J. (2020). Lexical processing of nouns and verbs at 36 months of age predicts concurrent and later vocabulary and school readiness. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21(5), 670-689. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2020.1802277
Souter, N. E., Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. J. (2020). The robustness of eye–mouth index as an eye-tracking metric of social attention in toddlers. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44(5), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025419885186
He, A. X., Huang, S., Waxman, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). Two-year-olds consolidate verb meanings during a nap. Cognition, 198, 104205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104205
Fitch, A., Lieberman, A. M., Luyster, R. J., & Arunachalam, S. (In press). Toddlers’ word learning through overhearing: Others’ attention matters. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104793
He, A. X., Kon, M., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). Linguistic context in verb learning: Less is sometimes more. Language learning and development, 16(1), 22-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1676751
Luyster, R. J., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). Brief report: Learning language through overhearing in children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50 (7), 2616-2624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3672-0
Patt, R., Wagner, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). The development of a sense of an ending. In Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 492-502).
Ahn, D., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). Anaphoric that: Difference between adults and children. In: M. M. Brown & A. Kohut (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 28-39. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Davies, C., Lingwood, J., & Arunachalam, S. (2020). Adjective forms and functions in British English child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vjsfn
2019
Luyster, R. J., & Arunachalam, S. (2019). Learning language through overhearing in children with ASD. In: Volkmar, F. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102496-1
Horvath, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2019). Optimal contexts for verb learning. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERSP-19-00088
Leech, K. A., Haber, A. S., Arunachalam, S., Kurkul, K., & Corriveau, K. H. (2019). On the malleability of selective trust. Journal of experimental child psychology, 183, 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.013
Horvath, S., Rescorla, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2019). The syntactic and semantic features of two-year-olds’ verb vocabularies: A comparison of typically developing children and late talkers. Journal of Child Language, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000508
2018
Valleau, M. J., Konishi, H., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). An Eye-Tracking Study of Receptive Verb Knowledge in Toddlers. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0363
Horvath, S., McDermott, E., Reilly, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Acquisition of verb meaning from syntactic distribution in preschoolers with ASD. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_LSHSS-STLT1-17-0126
Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. J. (2018). Lexical development in young children with ASD: How ASD may affect intake from the input. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2659-2672. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-RSAUT-18-0024
He, A. X., Luyster, R. J., Hong, S. J., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder. First Language. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723718782634
Arunachalam, S., & Dennis, S. (2018). Semantic detail in the developing verb lexicon: An extension of Naigles and Kako (1993). Developmental Science, 22:e12697. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12697 Video abstract
Horvath, S., Rescorla, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Semantic features of early verb vocabularies. In K. Syrett & S. Arunachalam (Eds.), Semantics in Acquisition. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Arunachalam, S., & He, A. X. (2018). Children’s acquisition of nouns that denote events. In: A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2017
Arunachalam, S. (2017). Preschoolers’ acquisition of novel verbs in the double object dative. Cognitive Science, 41, 831-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12368
He, A. X., & Arunachalam, S. (2017). Word learning mechanisms. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 8, e1435.https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1435
Valleau, M. J., & Arunachalam, S. (2017). The effects of linguistic context on visual attention while learning novel verbs. Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Arunachalam, S. (2017). Experimental approaches to understanding non-culmination in infants, children, and adults. Invited talk, TELIC 2017, Workshop on Non-culminating, Irresultative and Atelic Readings of Telic Predicates: Combining Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives. Stuttgart, Germany.
2016
Corriveau, K., Kurkul, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2016). Preschoolers’ preference for syntactic complexity varies by socioeconomic status. Child Development, 87, 1529-1537. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12553
Arunachalam, S. (2016). A new experimental paradigm to study children’s processing of their parent’s unscripted language input. Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 104-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2016.02.001
Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Chen, Y. (2016). Lexical disambiguation in verb learning: Evidence from the conjoined-subject intransitive frame in English and Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 7, 138. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00138
Syrett, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2016). Young children’s developing expectations about the language of events. In: J. A. Scott & D. Waughtal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Kon, M., Göksun, T., Bağci, A., & Arunachalam, S. (2016). Verb acquisition in English and Turkish: The role of processing. In: J. A. Scott & D. Waughtal (Eds.), Online Proceedings Supplement, 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2015
Arunachalam, S., & Luyster, R. (2015). The integrity of lexical acquisition mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders: A research review. Autism Research, 9, 810-828. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1590
Chita-Tegmark, M., Arunachalam, S., Nelson, C. A., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2015). Eye-tracking measurements of language processing: Developmental differences in children at high risk for ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3327-3338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2495-5
Arunachalam, S. (2015). Argument structure: Relationships between theory and acquisition. In Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing (pp. 259-280). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10112-5_12
Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2015). Let’s see a boy and a balloon. Argument labels and syntactic frame in verb learning. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 22, 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2014.928300
Arunachalam, S. (2015). How do children parse naturalistic input? A new methodology. In: E. Grillo, K. Jepson, & M. LaMendola (Eds.), Online Proceedings Supplement, 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2014
Arunachalam, S., & Syrett, K. (2014). Specifying event reference in verb learning. In: W. Orman & M. J. Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 39-50)
Syrett, K., Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2014). Slowly but surely: Adverbs support verb learning in 2-year-olds. Language Learning and Development, 10, 263-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2013.840493
2013
Arunachalam, S. (2013). Two-year-olds can begin to acquire verb meanings in socially impoverished contexts. Cognition, 129, 569-573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.021
Arunachalam, S. (2013). Experimental methods for linguists. Language and Linguistics Compass, 7, 221-232.
Arunachalam, S., & Sheline, L. (2013). Verb learning in non-social contexts. In: S. Baiz, N. Goldman, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), BUCLD 37 Online Proceedings Supplement. Retrieved from http://www.bu.edu/bucld/supplementvol37//
Choi, Y., & Arunachalam, S. (2013). Learning manner and path verbs from the Serial Verb Construction in Korean. In: S. Baiz, N. Goldman, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 62-73.
Arunachalam, S., Leddon, E. M., Song, H., Lee, Y., & Waxman, S. R. (2013). Doing more with less: Verb learning in Korean-acquiring 24-month-olds. Language Acquisition, 20, 292-304.
Waxman, S. R., Fu, X., Arunachalam, S., Leddon, E., Geraghty, K., & Song, H. (2013). Are nouns learned before verbs? Infants provide insight into a long-standing debate. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 155-159. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12032
Arunachalam, S., Escovar, E., Hansen, M. A., & Waxman, S. R. (2013). Out of sight but not out of mind: 21-month-olds use syntactic information to learn verbs even in the absence of a corresponding event. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 417-425.
Sheline, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2013). When the gostak distims the doshes: novel verb learning from novel nouns. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Meeting, Memphis, TN.
2012
Arunachalam, S., Syrett, K., & Waxman, S. R. (2012). Can adverbs call attention to manner of motion for 2-year-olds learning verbs? In: A. K. Biller, E. Y. Chung, & A. E. Kimball (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2011
Arunachalam, S., & Kothari, A. (2011). An experimental study of Hindi and English perfective interpretation. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 4(1), 27-42.
Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2011). Grammatical form and semantic context in verb learning. Language Learning and Development, 7, 169-184.
Leddon, E., Arunachalam, S., Gong, H., Wang, L., & Fu, X. (2011). Noun and verb learning in Mandarin-acquiring 24-month-olds. In: Online Proceedings Supplement, 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2010
Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2010). Meaning from syntax: Evidence from 2-year-olds. Cognition, 114, 442–446.
Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2010). Language and conceptual development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 548-558.
Arunachalam, S., & Waxman, S. R. (2010). Specifying the role of linguistic information in verb learning. In: K. Franich, K. Iserman, & L. Keil (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 11-21.
Arunachalam, S., & Kothari, A. (2010). Telicity and event culmination in Hindi perfectives. In: P. M. Bertinetto, A. Korhonen, A. Lenci, A. Melinger, S. Schulte im Walde, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), Proceedings of Verb 2010, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs: The Identification and Representation of Verb Features, 16-19.