Publications and Presentations

Publications

Thorburn C., Lau E., & Feldman, N. H. (in press)

"Exploring the effectiveness of reward-based learning strategies for second language speech sounds"

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 

Oppenheimer K., Salig L.*, & Thorburn C.*, & Exton E.*  (2022)

"Taking Language Science to Zoom School: Virtual Outreach to Elementary School Students"

Language and Linguistics Compass [paper]

Thorburn C., Lau E., & Feldman, N. H. (2021)

"A reinforcement learning approach to speech category acquisition"

Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) [paper]

Thorburn,C., Feldman N. H., & Schatz T. (2019).

"A quantitative model of the language familiarity effect in infancy"

Proceedings of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Berlin, Germany [paper] 

Conference Posters and Presentations

Oppenheimer K., Thorburn C.*, Salig L.*, Krauska A. *, Exton E.* & Dixon L.* (2022)

"Clinicians as STEMpowered Professionals: Using Speech and Language Science for Community and Career

Outreach"

Presented at the Annual Meeting Of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Thorburn C., Karunathilake I.M., Dixon L., Zhang M., Lau E., and Simon J. (2022)

"Local and Global Context Models in non-native English speakers"

Poster at the Annual Meeting Of The Society for Neurobiology of Language (SNL) [poster] [abstract]

Exton E., Oppenheimer K., Sailig L., & Thorburn C. (2022). 

"Taking linguistics to Zoom school: Engaging children in virtual outreach"

Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) [video]

Thorburn C., Lau E., & Feldman N. H. (2021). 

"A reinforcement learning approach to speech category acquisition"

Poster presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) [poster]

Thorburn C., Lau E., & Feldman N. H. (2020). 

"An evaluation framework for acoustic-phonetic models of speech processing."

Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) [abtract] [poster]

Thorburn,C., Feldman N. H., & Schatz T. (2019).

"A quantitative model of the language familiarity effect in infancy."

Presentation at the 13th Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop (NEC-Phon) [slides]

Thorburn,C., Feldman N. H., & Schatz T. (2019).

"A quantitative model of the language familiarity effect in infancy."

Poster Presented at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience [poster]

Thorburn, C. (2018)

"Uniform Information Density: Syntactic and Semantic Surprisal in Complementizer that-mentioning"

Presented at the Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics (GLEEFUL)