Selected Preprints
Qualitative variability in early overhearing experience. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (preprint)
Selective attention based on speech complexity and learning rate. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (BibTeX) (preprint) (repo)
2024
Tracking the onset of productive determiner+noun combinations in English-learners. Alhama, R., Foushee, R., Byrne, D., Ettinger, A., Alishahi, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. PNAS.
Sociolinguistic development in a diverse, multilinguistic environment: Evidence from multilingual children in Gujarat, India. Foushee, R., Regan, S., Baharloo, R., & Srinivasan, M. Cognitive Development. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2024). PNAS. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech. Casillas, M., Foushee, R., Mendez Girón, J., Polian, G., & Brown, P. (2024). First Language. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
2023
How adults understand what young children say. Meylan, S. C., Foushee, R., Bergelson, E., & Levy, R. (2023). Nature Human Behavior. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
Active learning in language development. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (2023). Current Directions in Psychology. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. Cristia, A., Foushee, R., Aravena-Bravo, P., Cychosz, M., Scaff, C., & Casillas, M. (2023). Journal of Child Language. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
2022
What 'diversity' means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd & Garcia (2022). Foushee, R. & Casillas, M. (2022). First Language. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
Getting to the root of linguistic alignment: Testing the predictions of Interactive Alignment across developmental and biological variation in language skill. Foushee, R., Byrne, D., Casillas, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2022) In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
2021
What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child-directed speech. Ellwood-Lowe, M., Foushee, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2021). Developmental Science. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
Self-directed learning by preschoolers in a naturalistic overhearing context. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (2021). Cognition, 206, 104415. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity. O'Donnell, M., Dev, Amelia S., Antonoplis, S., Baum, S., Benedetti, A., Brown, D., Carrillo, B., Choi, A., Connor, P. R., Donnelly, K., Ellwood-Lowe, M. E., Foushee, R., Jansen, R., Jarvis, S. N., Lundell-Creagh, R., Ocampo, J. M., Okafor, G. N., Azad, Z. R., Rosenblum, M., Schatz, D., Stein, D. H., Wang, Y., Moore, D. A., & Nelson, L. D. (2021). PNAS, 118 (44). (BibTeX) (publisher) (repo)
Child-directed listening: How caregiver inference enables children's early verbal communication. Meylan, S. C., Foushee, R., Bergelson, E., & Levy, R. (2021) In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
2019
Linguistic conventionality and the role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inference. Srinivasan, M., Foushee, R., Bartnof, A. & Barner, D. (2019). Cognition, 189, 193–208. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
When Allah meets Ganesha: Developing supernatural concepts in a religiously diverse society. Shtulman, A., Foushee, R., Barner, D., Dunham, Y., & Srinivasan, M. (2019). Cognitive Development, 52. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
2017
Learning language from within: Children use semantic generalizations to infer new word meanings. Srinivasan, M., Al-Mughairy, S., Foushee, R., & Barner, D. (2017). Cognition, 159, 193–208. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint) (repo)
What counts as math? Relating conceptions of math with anxiety about math. Foushee, R., Jansen, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (preprint)
Curious minds: What research tells us about building STEM connections in early childhood. Hadani, H., Kennedy, K., Foushee, R., & Jaeger, G. (2017). (BibTeX) (pdf)
2016
‘Two-pound cookies’ or ‘two pounds of cookies’: Children’s appreciation of quantity expressions. Foushee, R., Falkou, N., & Li, P. (2016). Language Acquisition, 24(4), 400–416. (BibTeX) (publisher) (preprint)
Could both be right? Children’s and adults’ sensitivity to subjectivity in language. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2017). In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
Active overhearing: Development in preschoolers’ skill at ‘listening in’ to naturalistic overheard speech. Foushee, R. & Xu, F. (2016). In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
Lexical complexity of child-directed and overheard speech: Implications for learning. Foushee, R., Griffiths, T., & Srinivasan, M. (2016). In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
Reimagining school readiness: A literature review. Hadani, H. & Foushee, R. (2016). (BibTeX) (site) (pdf)
2015
Daxing with a dax: Evidence of productive lexical structures in children. Al-Mughairy, S., Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Barner, D. (2015). In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (BibTeX) (pdf)
Posters
Unique sources of variability in individual caregivers' day-to-day affect during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellwood-Lowe, M., Foushee, R., Wehry, J., Horton, G., & Srinivasan, M. (2023). Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd23), Salt Lake City, UT. (poster)
Mapping language to real-world event probabilities across middle childhood. Foushee, R., Starr, A., Wehry, J., Anderson, J., Horton, G., O'Grady, S., & Srinivasan, M. (2023). at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd23), Salt Lake City, UT. (poster)
Characterizing the complete language environment: What could children learn by 'listening in'? Horton, G., Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Poster presented at the 12th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (cds). (poster)
Do speakers consult an internal jury of their peers in judging linguistic 'fault' and subjectivity? Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2021). Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (spp). (poster)
The impact of speech complexity on preschooler attention and learning. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (2020). Poster presented at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (bucld45), Boston, MA. (poster)
Transmission of religious and scientific explanations within chains of Hindu and Muslim children. Foushee, R., Jansen, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2020). Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.
Similarity judgments determine consistency of implicit number conceptions across ages. Jansen, R. & Foushee, R.. (2020). Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada.
How do we talk to children? Leveraging speech corpora to quantify how we simplify speech to child Foushee, R., Xu, Y., & Srinivasan, M. (2019). Poster presented at the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (bucld44), Boston, MA. (poster)
Tuned in: Children learn from overheard speech while engaged in a cognitively demanding task. Berger, E., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Jauregui, M., Foushee, R., Bunge, S., & Srinivasan, M. (2019). Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (cds), Louisville, KY. (poster)
Skeptical 4-year-olds engage in social referencing with adults to interpret socially incongruent situations. Williams, D. J., Foushee, R., Morgan, J. & Luchkina, E. (2019). Poster presented at the UCSC-UCB-Stanford Developmental Talks, Berkeley, CA.
Faultless disagreement judgments track adults’ estimates of population-level consensus over adjective-referent pairs. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2018). Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI. (poster)
The ‘Goldilocks Effect’ in preschoolers’ attention to spoken language. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M., & Xu, F. (2018). Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI. (poster)
A new similarity measure to reveal individual differences and growth in implicit number conceptions. Jansen, R., Foushee, R., & Griffths, T. (2018). Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI. (poster)
When 7 is closer to 9 than to 8: An expanded measure of implicit number conception. Jansen, R., Foushee, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2018). Poster presented at the 2nd Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference (mcls), Oxford, UK. (poster)
Relating conceptions of math with anxiety about math. Foushee, R., Jansen, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK. (poster)
Low- and high- math anxiety individuals’ representations of math: A multidimensional scaling analysis. Foushee, R., Jansen, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the 1st Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference (mcls), Nashville, TN. (poster)
The impact of social structure and culture on mindset and math anxiety: Evidence from an Indian middle school. Foushee, R., Dubey, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd), Austin, TX. (poster)
Developing sensitivity to subjectivity in language. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd), Austin, TX. (poster)
Do young children expect newly-learned words to be shared by others? Bartnof, A., Foushee, R., Barner, D., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd), Austin, TX. (poster)
Broad definitions of math are linked to lower levels of math anxiety. Jansen, R., Foushee, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (srcd), Austin, TX. (poster)
Development in preschooler’s learning from naturalistic overheard speech. Foushee, R., & Xu, F. (2016). Poster presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development (bucld41), Boston, MA.
Counting pieces of stuff in Tseltal Maya. Foushee, R. & Li, P. (2016). Poster presented at the Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses Workshop, University of Campinas (unicamp), Brazil. (poster)
Sensing subjectivity: Semantic and epistemological development. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2016). Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (spp), Austin, TX. (poster)
Active overhearing. Foushee, R., Srinivasan, M. & Xu, F. (2015). Poster presented at the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (cds), Columbus, OH. (poster)
Sensing subjectivity: Children’s semantic and epistemological development. Foushee, R. & Srinivasan, M. (2015). Poster presented at the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (cds), Columbus, OH. (poster)
‘Two-pound cookies’ or ‘two pounds of cookies’: Children’s appreciation of quantity expressions. Foushee, R., Falkou, N., & Li, P. (2014). Poster presented at the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development (bucld39), Boston, MA. (poster)