Melody Dye :: Journal Articles

Refereed Publications

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Recent Publication Highlights

Dye, M. (2017). Bridging levels of analysis: Learning, information theory, and the lexicon. Doctoral dissertation. **Awarded the Glushko Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Cognitive Science Society, 2018**
Dye, M., Milin, P., Futrell, R., & Ramscar, M. (2018). Alternative solutions to a language design problem: The role of adjectives and gender marking in efficient communication. Topics in Cognitive Science 10(1): 209-224. doi: 10.1111/tops.12316 **Awarded the Marr Prize for Best Student Paper, Cognitive Science Society, 2017**

2017

Dye, M., Milin, P., Futrell, R., & Ramscar, M. (2017). A functional theory of gender paradigms. In F. Kiefer, J.P. Blevins, & H. Bartos (Eds.) Perspectives on Morphological Organization: Data and Analyses. Brill: Leiden.
Jones, M. N., Dye, M., & Johns, B. T. (2017). Context as an organizing principle of the lexicon. In B. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 239–283).
Dye, M., Jones, M., Yarlett, D., & Ramscar, M. (2017). Refining the distributional hypothesis: A role for time and context in semantic representation. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Dye, M., Jones, M., & Shiffrin, R. (2017). Vanishing the mirror effect: The influence of prior history & list composition on recognition memory. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Dye, M., Ramscar, M., & Jones, M. (2017). Representing the richness of linguistic structure in models of episodic memory. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK. [code]

2016

Dye, M., Johns, B. T., Jones, M.N., & Ramscar, M. (2016). The structure of names in memory: Deviations from uniform entropy impair memory for linguistic sequences. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
Johns, B.T., Dye, M., & Jones, M.N. (2016). The influence of contextual diversity on word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 23: 1214–1220.
Jones, M.N. & Dye, M. (2016). Big data approaches to studying discourse processes. In A. Britt, D. Rapp, & M. Schober (Eds.) Handbook of Discourse Processes, 2nd Edition. Taylor & Francis / Routledge.

2015

Riordan, B., Dye, M., & Jones, M.N. (2015). Grammatical number processing and eye movements in English spoken language comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00590
Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Blevins, J., & Baayen, H. (2015). Morphological development. In A. Bar-On & D. Ravid (Eds.) Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistics Perspectives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

2013

Ramscar, M., Dye, M., & McCauley, S. (2013). Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of ‘mouses’ in adult speech. Language 89(4): 760-793.
Ramscar, M., Dye, M., & Klein, J. (2013). Children value informativity over logic in word learning. Psychological Science 24(6): 1017-1023.
Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Gustafson, J.W., & Klein, J. (2013). Dual routes to cognitive flexibility: Learning and response conflict resolution in the Dimensional Change Card Sort task. Child Development 84(4): 1308-23.
Ramscar, M, Dye, M., & Hubner, M. (2013). When the fly flied and when the fly flew: How semantics can make sense of inflection. Language and Cognitive Processes 28(4): 468-97.
Ramscar, M., Smith, A.H., Dye, M., Futrell, R., Hendrix, P., Baayen, H. & Starr, R. (2013). The ‘universal’ structure of name grammars and the impact of social engineering on the evolution of natural information systems. Proceedings of the 35th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.

2011

Ramscar, M., Dye, M., Popick, H. & O’Donnell-McCarthy, F. (2011). The enigma of number: Why children find the meanings of even small number words hard to learn and how we can help them do better. PLoS ONE 6(7): e2250. **CogSci proceedings paper awarded the IES Prize for Excellence in Research on Cognition & Student Learning, 2011**
Ramscar, M., & Dye, M. (2011). Learning language from the input: Why level ordering can’t explain noun-compounding. Cognitive Psychology 62(1): 1-40.
Ramscar, M., Suh, E. & Dye, M. (2011). How pitch category learning comes at a cost to absolute frequency representations. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Popick, H., Dye, M., Kirkham, N. & Ramscar, M. (2011). Investigating how infants learn to search in the A-not-B task. Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.

2010

Ramscar, M., Yarlett, D.G., Dye, M., Denny, K., & Thorpe, K. (2010). The effects of feature-label-order and their implications for symbolic learning. Cognitive Science 34(6): 909-957.
Ramscar, M., Matlock, T., & Dye, M. (2010). Running down the clock: The role of expectation in our understanding of time and motion. Language and Cognitive Processes 25(5): 589-615.
Kao, J., Ryan, R., Dye, M. & Ramscar, M. (2010). An acquired taste: How reading literature affects sensitivity to word distributions when judging literary texts. Proceedings of the 32nd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.

2009

Dye, M. & Ramscar, M. (2009). No representation without taxation: The costs and benefits of learning to conceptualize the environment. Proceedings of the 31st Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.