Papers
L. Perkins & T. Hunter (under review). “Modeling regularization in language acquisition as noise-tolerant grammar selection.” [lingbuzz]
L. Perkins, N. H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (under review). “Mind the Gap: Learning the surface forms of movement dependencies.” [lingbuzz]
L. Perkins, T. Knowlton, A. Williams, & J. Lidz (2024). “Thematic content, not number matching, drives syntactic bootstrapping.” Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2024.2372663
E. Khlystova, A. Williams, J. Lidz, & L. Perkins (2024). “Visual perception supports 4-place event representations: A case study of TRADING.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 46 (CogSci 2024).
L. Perkins & T. Hunter (2023). “Noise-tolerant learning as selection among deterministic grammatical hypotheses.” Proceedings of the 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023).
S. Maitra & L. Perkins (2023). “Filtering input for learning constrained grammatical variability: The case of Spanish word order.” Proceedings of the 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023).
V. Mateu, L. Perkins, & N. Hyams (2023). “Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish.” Proceedings of the 97th Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting.
L. Perkins, N.H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (2022). “The power of ignoring: Filtering input for argument structure acquisition.” Cognitive Science, 46 (1) e13080; DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13080.
L. Perkins & J. Lidz (2021). “Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (41) e2026469118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2026469118.
J. Schneider, L. Perkins, & N. H. Feldman (2020). “A noisy channel model for systematizing unpredictable input variation.” M. M Brown & A. Kohut (eds.), Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development: 533-547.
L. Perkins & J. Lidz (2020). “Filler-gap dependency comprehension at 15 months: The role of vocabulary.” Language Acquisition, 27(1): 98-115.
J. Lidz & L. Perkins (2018). “The importance of input representations.” Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 8(6): 743-748.
L. Perkins, N.H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (2017). “Learning an input filter for argument structure acquisition.” Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics.
Chapters
L. Perkins & J. Lidz (2023). “Behavioral Acquisition Methods with Infants.” J. Sprouse (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax.
J. Lidz & L. Perkins (2018). “Language Acquisition.” J. Wixted (ed.), The Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Fourth Edition, Volume 4.
Talks
E. Khlystova, A. Williams, J. Lidz, & L. Perkins (2024). “Visual perception supports 4-place event representations: A case study of TRADING.” Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam.
S. Maitra & L. Perkins (2023). “Filtering input for learning constrained grammatical variability: The case of Spanish word order.” 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023), Amherst.
L. Perkins, Y. Ying, A. Williams, & J. Lidz (2021). “Object wh-questions with unknown verbs are transitive for 20-month-olds.” 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46), Boston/Online.
L. Perkins & J. Lidz (2021). “Non-Local Syntactic Dependencies in Infancy: Wh-Question Representations Develop Between 14- and 18-Months.” Symposium on “Beyond Categories: Infant Syntax Above the Word Level” (L. Perkins, chair, & J. Lidz, discussant), 2021 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), online.
M. Hirzel, L. Perkins, & J. Lidz (2020). “19 month-olds parse wh-questions incrementally.” 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45), Boston/Online.
A. Williams, L. Perkins, & J. Lidz (2019). “Transitive clauses can describe 3-participant events: Evidence against one-to-one matching between arguments and participants in verb learning.” 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston.
J. Lidz & L. Perkins (2019). “The Development of Wh-Question Representations in Infancy: Evidence from 15- and 18-Month-Olds.” 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston.
J. Schneider, L. Perkins, & N.H. Feldman (2019). “A noisy channel model for systematizing unpredictable input variation.” 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston.
K. Hitczenko & L. Perkins (2019). “Introduction to Bayesian Modeling in Linguistics.” Tutorial presented at the 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), New York.
H. Muller, P. Gaston, B. Dickerson, K. Durvasula, M. Hirzel, K. Hitczenko, M. Kandel, A. Liter, P. Lyskawa, J. Nelligan, M. Papillon, and L. Perkins (2019). “Gender bias in representation and publishing rates across subfields.” 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, New York.
L. Perkins, N.H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (2017). “Learning to Filter Non-Basic Clauses for Argument Structure Acquisition.” 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42), Boston.
J. Lidz, A. Williams, & L. Perkins (2017). “Conceptual correlates of transitivity in early verb learners.” Symposium on “Event Concepts and Early Word Learning,” 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42), Boston.
L. Perkins, N.H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (2017). “Learning an Input Filter for Argument Structure Acquisition.” 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), Valencia, Spain.
Posters
L. Perkins & T. Hunter (2023). “Noise-tolerant learning as selection among deterministic grammatical hypotheses.” 6th meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL 2023), Amherst.
V. Mateu, L. Perkins, & N. Hyams (2023). “Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish.” 97th Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2023), Denver/Online.
L. Perkins & T. Hunter (2022). “Word order acquisition from immature representations: A model for noise-tolerant learning of deterministic grammars.” 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47), Boston.
M. Hirzel, L. Perkins, & J. Lidz (2020). “19 month-olds represent and incrementally parse filler-gap dependencies.” 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst/Online.
L. Perkins, N.H. Feldman, & J. Lidz (2019). “Mind the Gap: Learning the Surface Forms of Movement.” 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston.
L. Perkins, T. Knowlton, A. Williams, & J. Lidz (2018). “Matching number vs. linking roles: Using 3- participant scene percepts to understand infants’ bootstrapping.” 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 43), Boston.
T. Knowlton, L. Perkins, A. Williams, & J. Lidz (2018). “Getting a grip on infants’ event representations: participant number in TAKE and PICK-UP.” The XXI Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia.
A. Williams, L. Perkins, A. X. He, S. Björnsdóttir, & J. Lidz (2017). “A New Test of One-to-One Matching Between Arguments and Participants in Verb Learning.” 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42), Boston.
J. Lidz & L. Perkins (2017). “Vocabulary Predicts Filler-Gap Dependency Comprehension at 15 Months.” 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 42), Boston.