PhD student in Psychology @ UCSD ☀️ Curious about how children learn (from / about) language and how it mediates learning of abstract concepts! ⛸️🎮🐱https://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3mqpyzagij22bHow do children learn new words? Do they simply track word-object co-occurrences across contexts, or do they also use information about what speakers know and intend? With @mzettersten.bsky.social and @drbarner.bsky.social, I tackled this question in our new preprint! 1/🧵👇 https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bjp9r_v116 Jul 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpyzagij22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3mnn65q7p3s2gIf you study number and want a more standardized and convenient version for Give-N, consider using a digital task! New preprint 🚨 (with Kenyee Liu, Daniel Hyde and @drbarner.bsky.social): a digital Give-N task shows high knower level agreement with a physical version. 1/ https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5xstq_v106 Jun 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnn65q7p3s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3mmzs5b5dgk2zKids compute scalar implicatures at a younger age than previously found, when they can form their own interpretation first before we present them with irrelevant alternatives! Another case of task pragmatics masking kids’ early competence 🤔 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 May 2026 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzs5b5dgk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3mmx57pcnhk2sLanguages like English distinguish between mass nouns (e.g., water) and count nouns (e.g., cat). One way these nouns differ that count nouns quantify over individuals, while mass nouns supposedly do not. But what about mass nouns like "furniture", which often seem to quantify by number?28 May 2026 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmx57pcnhk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3mfsopreo4c2bCheck out my new paper with @drbarner.bsky.social in JECP! We asked whether mutual exclusivity inferences involve epistemic reasoning about what a speaker knows, and whether children can infer speakers' knowledge of words from linguistic conventionality. (1/7) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002209652600039127 Feb 2026 02:41 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfsopreo4c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3kszrl6jhoi2pNew preprint by the phenomenal @ebruevcen.bsky.social with @drbarner.bsky.social revealing that people interpret conditionals pragmatically, initially treating them as biconditionals! So excited to see where this work goes next, especially for children’s acquisition of conditionals! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2024 21:56 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3kszrl6jhoi2phttps://bsky.app/profile/knle.bsky.social/post/3kri5sdyxgb2aNew preprint with Rose Schneider & @drbarner.bsky.social on children's learning of number concepts! https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2agtm TL;DR: Learning to count large sets may be necessary, but not enough for understanding that numbers represent exact quantities 🧠🔢 (1/4)02 May 2024 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:khry3khosltjysdxe42geash/app.bsky.feed.post/3kri5sdyxgb2a