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Holtz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (under review). Does degree of innovation modulate the influence of cognitive biases on language structure?
Holtz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (under review). Does degree of innovation modulate the influence of cognitive biases on language structure?
Holtz, A., Culbertson, J. & Kirby, S. (under review). Category-specific and system-wide preferences in competition: Evidence from noun phrase harmony.
To preprintHoltz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (under review). With or without a system: How category-specific cognitive biases shape noun phrase word order.
To preprintHoltz, A. & Papineau, B. (2023). Examining the female-talker default in experimental language acquisition research. Infant and Child Development.
To articleMartin, A., Holtz, A., Abels, K., Adger, D., & Culbertson, J. (2020). Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1).
To articleHoltz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2022) The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.),Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1011-1018.
To articleHoltz, A. (2021) Ambiguity and variable phonological rules: The challenge of TD Deletion in US English. In A. Holtz, I. Kovač, R. Puggaard-Rode, and J. Wall, (Eds.), ConSOLE XXIX: Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 98-115.
To proceedingsHoltz, A. (2019). An experimental investigation of harmony and isomorphism in the noun phrase. Dissertation published in Proceedings of the 2019 conference of Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain.
Supervisors: Dr. Jennifer Culbertson & Professor Simon Kirby
To articleHoltz, A.(2024, May 18-21). Using the Scale of Innovation to Study the Evolution of Language. [Conference presentation]. International Conference on the Evolution of Language 2024, Madison, WI.
To conference programmeHoltz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2022, Sep 5-8). The Effect of Improvisation and Learning on Word Order Preferences. [Conference poster]. Joint Conference on Language Evolution 2022, Kanazawa, Japan.
To conference programmeHoltz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2022, Jul 27-30). The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns. [Conference presentation]. CogSci 2022, online.
To conference paperHoltz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2022, May 25-27). Cognitive biases differ in improvisation and learning of noun phrase word order. [Workshop presentation]. CCILE 2022, online.
Holtz, A., Kirby, S., & Culbertson, J. (2022, Jan 25-27). Postnominal adjectives and prenominal genitives as reflections of cognitive preferences. [Conference poster]. ConSOLE XXX, online.
To programmeHoltz, A., Culbertson, J., Kirby, S., & Martin, A. (2021, Jun 10-12) An experimental investigation of item-specific word order preferences. [Conference presentation]. LELPGC21, online.
To programmeHoltz, A. (2021, Jan 26-28) Ambiguity and variable phonological rules: The challenge of TD Deletion in US English. [Conference poster]. ConSOLE XXIX, online.
To programmeOta, M., Holtz, A., & Skarabela, B. (2019, Nov 7-10) Syllable repetition is privileged over consonant repetition in infant word segemntation. [Conference presentation]. BUCLB 44, Boston, MA.
To programmeHoltz, A. (2019). Challenging Functional Explanations of Variable TD Deletion in American English. [Workshop poster]. The 69th Language Lunch, Edinburgh, UK.
To programmeHoltz, A. (2019, Apr 10-13). Cognitive biases and how they shape typology. [Conference presentation]. The 2019 conference of Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, London, UK.
To programmeHoltz, A. (2018, Apr 9-11). Mutual exclusivity and synonymy avoidance: Two sides of the same coin. [Conference presentation]. The 2018 conference of Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, Edinburgh, UK.
To programmeOta, M., Barrera Navarro, M., Go, L., Heimann, J., Holtz, A., Little, S., O’Connor, R., & Skarabela, B. (2018, Jun 25-26). Do British mothers use less exaggerated infant-directed speech than American mothers? [Conference presentation]. Child Language Symposium, Reading, UK.