Niels Dickson

Niels Dickson

Graduate Student

University of California, Irvine

Biography

Niels is a graduate student in the Language Science department at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-advised by Dr. Lisa Pearl and Dr. Richard Futrell. His research investigates questions in the field of language acquisition with a focus on syntactic representation and computational models of representation.

Interests

  • Language Acquisition
  • Syntactic Representation
  • Syntactic Islands
  • Computational Modeling
  • Efficient Communication

Education

  • BS in Psychology, 2020

    Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

  • BIS with concentrations in Math, French, and Philosophy, 2020

    Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Featured Publications

April 2024 Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

I Forgot but It’s Okay: Learning about Island Constraints under Child-Like Memory Constraints

February 2022 Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

Learning constraints on wh-dependencies by learning how to efficiently represent wh-dependencies: A developmental modeling investigation with Fragment Grammars

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December 2021

Influence of input on part of speech tagging: Comparing adult directed and child directed speech

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April 2020

The Relative Contributions of Taxonomic and Thematic Knowledge When Making Similarity Judgements

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

I forgot but it's okay: Learning about island constraints under child-like memory constraints

Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference of Language Development (BUCLD)
Nov 1, 2023 12:00 AM
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Acquiring wh-dependencies through efficient representation

UCI Language Science community talk. Check out recording here
May 23, 2023 12:00 AM
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