Peer-Reviewed Publications

Stoops, A., Wu, M., Jung, I., & Montag, J. L. (2024). A novel corpus of naturalistic picture book reading with 2-3 year old children. Langauge Development Research, 4, 259-297. pdf

Patel, T. N., Marasli, Z. B., Choi, A. & Montag, J. L. (2024). An online survey of picture book reading practices with children between the ages of 0 and 30 months. Language Learning and Development, 1-27. pdf

Stoops, A. & Montag, J. L. (2023). Effects of individual differences in text exposure on sentence comprehension. Scientific Reports, 13, 16812. pdf osf

Flores, A. Z., Montag, J. L., & Willits, J. A. (2023). Using known words to learn more words: A distributional model of vocabulary development. Journal of Memory and Language, 132,104446. pdf

Macbeth, A., Bruni, M., De La Cruz, B., Montag, J. L., Atagi, N., Robbins, M. L., & Chiarello, C. (2022). How real-world language use relates to self-report and laboratory measures of bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:993669. pdf

Macbeth, A., Bruni, M., De La Cruz, B., Erens, J. A., Atagi, N., Robbins, M. L., Chiarello, C., Montag, J. L. (2022). Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) to capture the day-to-day linguistic experiences of young adults. Collabra: Psychology, 8, 36310. pdf osf

Montag, J. L. (2021). Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 74, 233-273. pdf

Sarkis, J. T., & Montag, J. L. (2021). The effect of lexical accessibility on Spanish-English intra-sentential codeswitching. Memory and Cognition, 49, 163-180. pdf osf

Montag, J. L. (2019). Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children’s picture books and child-directed speech. First Language, 39, 527-546. pdf osf

Montag, J. L., Jones, M. N., & Smith, L. B. (2018). Quantity and diversity: Simulations of early word learning environments. Cognitive Science, 42, 375-412. pdf

Montag, J. L., Matsuki, K., Kim, J. & MacDonald, M. C. (2017). The effects of word order on sentence structure choice in language production: A multi-clause and multi-language investigation. Collabra: Psychology, 3, 20. pdf

MacDonald, M. C., Montag, J. L., & Gennari, S. P. (2016). Are there really syntactic complexity effects in sentence production?: A reply to Scontras et al. Cognitive Science, 40, 513-518. pdf

Montag, J. L., Jones, M. N., & Smith, L. B. (2015). The words children hear: Picture books and the statistics for language learning. Psychological Science, 26, 1489-1496. pdf

Montag, J. L., & MacDonald, M. C. (2015). Text exposure predicts spoken production of complex sentences in eight and twelve year old children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 1489-1496. pdf

Montag, J. L., AuBuchon, A. M., Pisoni, D. B. & Kronenberger, W. G. (2014). Speech intelligibility in early-implanted deaf children after long-term cochlear implant use. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 57, 2332-2343. pdf

Montag, J. L., & MacDonald, M. C. (2014). Visual salience modulates sentence choice in relative clause production. Language and Speech, 57, 163-180. pdf

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

Marasli, Z. B. & Montag, J. L. (2023). Optimizing random time sampling of daylong audio. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 87-94). Sydney, NSW, Australia: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Montag, J. L. (2020). New insights from daylong audio transcripts of children’s language environments. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu & B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3005-3011). Toronto, ON, Canada: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Montag, J. L. & MacDonald, M. C. (2014). Effects of text exposure on spoken sentence production. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Montag, J. L. & MacDonald, M. C. (2013). Choice of referring expression subject to visual context, linguistic context and competition. In A. Gatt, R. van Gompel, E. G. Bard, E. Krahmer, & D. van Deemter (Eds.) Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference. pdf

Montag, J. L. & MacDonald, M. C. (2009). Word order doesn't matter: Relative clause production in English and Japanese. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2594-2599). Cognitive Science Society. pdf