Publications

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In Prep

Morris, B., Wang, Z., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Everyday Task Demands.

Morris, B., & Shaw, A. (in prep). “Oh! Um. . . Sure”: Children and adults use other’s linguistic surprisal to reason about expectations and learn stereotypes.

Morris, B.*, Suwal, U.*, Lin, Q., Rubio-Fernandez, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (in prep). Speakers strategically adjust their image descriptions based on perceived memorability.

Submitted/Under Revision

Hok, H., Morris, B., & Shaw, A. (submitted). Fair Rules, Unfair Use: Children negatively evaluate inconsistent rule use.

Bergey, C.*, Morris, B.*, & Yurovsky, D. (invited revision). Language selectively encodes atypical features of the world. Nature communications.

Morris, B., & Yurovsky, D. (invited revision). Communicative pressure on caregivers leads to language input that supports children’s word learning. Link to paper.

Published

Morris, B., Yurovsky, D., & Shaw, S. (in press). “Um…” Thinking out loud: Children infer the social meaning of speech disfluencies. Child Development.

Morris, B., Shaw, A., Liberman, Z. (in press). Calibrated deference: Children’s evaluations of responses to disagreement across knowledge gaps. Cognition.

Suwal, U.*, Morris, B.*, Lin, Q., Rubio-Fernandez, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). Speakers strategically adjust their descriptions based on perceived memorability. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Morris, B., & Shaw, A. (2024). “Oh! Um. . . Sure”: Children and adults use other’s linguistic surprisal to reason about expectations and learn stereotypes. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Link to paper.

Leung, A.C.*, Morris, B.*, & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Children know what words other children know. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Link to paper.

Bergey, C.*, Morris, B.*, & Yurovsky, D. (2020). Children hear more about what is atypical than what is typical. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Link to paper.

ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Link to paper.

Morris, B., & Yurovsky, D. (2019). Pressure to communicate across knowledge asymmetries leads to pedagogically supportive language input. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Link to paper.