tylerknowlton.com - Tyler Knowlton

Description: Hi! I'm a psycholinguist interested in natural language meaning, its acquisition, and how it interfaces with non-linguistic conceptual systems. I'm currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Penn's MindCORE.

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Lately, I’ve been focusing on the mental representations that serve as the meanings of quantificational expressions like each , every , and most . What are the formal properties of those representations? When do children have access to them? And how do learners figure out how to pair them with the right pronunciations? To get at these questions, I’ve used a range of methods including behavioral experiments with adults and children, habituation experiments with infants, psychophysical modeling, corpus analys

I'm currently a MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where I'm working with John Trueswell , Anna Papafragou , and Florian Schwarz . I earned my PhD in Linguistics in 2021 from the University of Maryland , where I was part of the Maryland Language Science Center . My dissertation -- The Psycho-logic of Universal Quantifiers -- was advised by Jeff Lidz and Paul Pietroski . Before that, I studied Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins and managed Justin Halberda's Vision and Co

Precursors of Quantification in Infancy: When do infants have access to quantificational concepts, like those underlying each and all ? So far, we’ve found that even 10 month-olds distinguish collective and distributive exhaustive actions. In particular, they treat videos of three chevrons chasing a single ball together as different in kind from perceptually similar videos in which three chevrons each individually chase their own ball. Follow-up experiments are underway to control for low-level perceptual d

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