Sabine Stoll

Sabine Stoll, Prof. Dr.

Head of the Language Acquisition and Diversity Lab (ACQDIV)
Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE)

Tel.: +41 44 63 40231

Fokusthemen: Psycholinguistik, Spracherwerb, Sprachevolution, Tierkommunikation
Mitglied in UZH-Verbünden: Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), NCCR Evolving Language, UFSP Sprache und Raum (SpuR)

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You, Guanghao; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics. Cognitive Science, 48(9):e13495.
Morozova, Natalia; You, Guanghao; Stoll, Sabine; Bangerter, Adrian (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping. In: Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, 1 September 2024 - 5 September 2024. ISCA, 4763-4767.
Hardegger, Selma; Mazara, Jekatarina; Küntay, Aylin C; Hellwig, Birgit; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children's early lexical development. In: Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2354-2361.
Mazara, Jekatarina; Loporcaro, Michele; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts. In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 July 2024 - 27 July 2024. UC Merced, 2496-2502.
Rüst, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2023). Getting Creative: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Child Utterances in 12 Typologically Diverse Languages. In: 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Sommerville, MA, 2 November 2022 - 5 November 2022. Cascadilla Press, 672-685.
Feurstein, Liudmyla; Furrer, Reinhard; Stoll, Sabine (2023). Turn-Taking Predicts Vocabulary Acquisition at 18 Months: A Study of Daylong Recordings. In: 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Sommerville, MA, 2 November 2022 - 5 November 2022. Cascadilla Press, 255-267.
Ger, Ebru; You, Guanghao; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2022). Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives. Cognitive Science, 46(12):13210.
Bosshard, Alexandra B; Leroux, Maël; Lester, Nicholas A; Bickel, Balthasar; Stoll, Sabine; Townsend, Simon W (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76:122.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang. In: The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada, 27 July 2022 - 30 July 2022. UC Merced, 3696-3702.
Ger, Ebru; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2022). Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal?. Language and Cognition, 14(2):161-184.
Rüst, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2022). The Acquisition of Case Systems in Typologically Diverse Languages: Children Gradually Generalize Grammatical Rules. In: Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, 4 November 2021 - 7 November 2021. Cascadilla Press, 672-685.
Schick, Johanna; Fryns, Caroline; Wegdell, Franziska; Laporte, Marion; Zuberbühler, Klaus; van Schaik, Carel P; Townsend, Simon W; Stoll, Sabine (2022). The function and evolution of child-directed communication. PLoS Biology, 20(5):e3001630.
Lester, Nicholas A; Moran, Steven; Küntay, Aylin C; Allen, Shanley E M; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages. Cognition, 221:104986.
Loukatou, Georgia; Stoll, Sabine; Blasi, Damian; Cristia, Alejandrina (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling. Cognition, 220:104960.
Mansfield, John; Saldana, Carmen; Hurst, Peter; Nordlinger, Rachel; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Perfors, Andrew (2022). Category Clustering and Morphological Learning. Cognitive Science, 46(2):e13107.
Ger, Ebru; Stuber, Larissa; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2021). Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105182.
You, Guanghao; Bickel, Balthasar; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference. Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang. In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, online, July 2021. California Digital Library, 840-846.
You, Guanghao; Daum, Moritz; Stoll, Sabine (2020). Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach. In: Conference on Language Development / Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2020. Cascadilla Press, 818-828.
Collier, Katie; Radford, Andrew N; Stoll, Sabine; Watson, Stuart K; Manser, Marta B; Bickel, Balthasar; Townsend, Simon W (2020). Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935):20192514.
Mansfield, John; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking. Language, 96(2):255-293.
Stoll, Sabine (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development. In: Rowland, Caroline; Twomey, Katherine E; Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna. Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 247-263.
Stoll, Sabine; Schikowski, Robert (2020). Child-language corpora. In: Paquot, Magali; Gries, Stefan. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham: Springer, 305-329.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). How Do Children Become Flexible in Their Use of Grammatical Categories? The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited. In: 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 363-375.
Lester, Nicholas; Bickel, Balthasar; Moran, Steven; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang. In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Development of Verb Morphology: From Item-Specificity to Proficient Use. In: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC, 24 July 2019 - 27 July 2019. CogSci, 2325-2331.
Blasi, Damian; Cotterell, Ryan; Wolf-Sonkin, Lawrence; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Baroni, Marco (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study. In: Korhonen, Anna; Traum, David; Màrquez, Lluís. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence: Association for Computational Linguistics, 3938-3943.
Moran, Steven; Pajović, Danica; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech. In: Calzolari, Nicoletta. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4100-4105.
Townsend, Simon W; Engesser, Sabrina; Stoll, Sabine; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425.
Bühler, Jessica C; von Oertzen, Timo; McBride, Catherine A; Stoll, Sabine; Maurer, Urs (2018). Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(3):336-360.
Moran, Steven; Blasi, Damián E; Schikowski, Robert; Küntay, Aylin C; Pfeiler, Barbara; Allen, Shanley; Stoll, Sabine (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames. Cognition, 175:131-140.
Jung, Dagmar; Klein, Mark; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Language transition(s): School responses to recent changes in language choice in a northern Dene community (Canada). In: Wigglesworth, Gillian; Simpson, Jane; Vaughan, Gill. Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School. UK: Palrgrave Macmillan, 49-69.
Stoll, Sabine; Mazara, Jekatarina; Bickel, Balthasar (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang. In: Fortescue, Michael D; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495 - 514.
Townsend, Simon W; Koski, Sonja E; Byrne, Richard W; Slocombe, Katie E; Bickel, Balthasar; Boeckle, Markus; Braga Goncalves, Ines; Burkart, Judith M; Flower, Tom; Gaunet, Florence; Glock, Hans Johann; Gruber, Thibaud; Jansen, David A W A M; Liebal, Katja; Linke, Angelika; Miklósi, Ádám; Moore, Richard; van Schaik, Carel P; Stoll, Sabine; Vail, Alex; Waller, Bridget M; Wild, Markus; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Manser, Marta B (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
Moran, Steven; Schikowski, Robert; Pajović, Danica; Hysi, Cazim; Stoll, Sabine (2016). The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 28 May 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4423-4429.
Stoll, Sabine (2016). Studying language acquisition in different linguistic and cultural settings.. In: Bonvillain, Nancy. The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Routledge, 140-158.
Stoll, Sabine (2015). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition. In: Bavin, Edith; Naigles, Letitia. The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 89-104.
Stoll, Sabine; Zakharko, Taras; Moran, Steven; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82.
Stoll, Sabine (2015). Inflectional morphology in language acquisition. In: Baerman, Matthew. Handbook of inflectional morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 351-375.
Bavin, Edith; Stoll, Sabine The acquisition of ergativity. Edited by: Bavin, Edith; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Stoll, Sabine; Lieven, Elena (2013). Studying language acquisition crosslinguistically. In: Winskel, Heather. Handbook of South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-36.
Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Early communicative development in two cultures: A comparison of the communicative environments of children from two cultures. Human Development, 56(3):178-206.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research. In: Bickel, Balthasar; Grenoble, Lenore A; Peterson, David A; Timberlake, Alan. Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 195 - 216.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang. In: Stoll, Sabine; Bavin, Edith. The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207.
Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Manoj; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident' of 1979 and the politics of commemoration. In: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie. Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People's War. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 97 - 113.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Paudyal, Netra P; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications. In: Seifart, Frank; Haig, Geoffrey L J; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P; Jung, Dagmar; Margetts, Anna; Trilsbeek, Paul; Wittenburg, Peter. Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization. Manoa: University of Hawai‘i Press, 84-90.
राई, नोवल किशोर; राई, मनोज; पौड्याल, नेत्र प्रसाद; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Stoll, Sabine; Gaenszle, Martin; बन्जादे, गोमा; राई, इच्छा पूर्णा; भट्ट, तोया नाथ; Sauppe, Sebastian; राई, रिखी माया; राई, जनक कुमारी; राई, लास कुमारी; राई, दुर्ग बहादुर; राई, गणेश; राई, दयाराम; राई, दुर्ग कुमारी; राई, अनिता; राई, चन्द्र कुमारी; राई, शन्ति माया; राई, रविन्द्र कुमार; Pettygrew, Judith; Dirksmeyer, Tyko (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण. Kathmandu: MPI.
Bickel, Balthasar; Rai, Manoj; Paudyal, Netra P; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti). In: Malchukov, Andrej; Haspelmath, Martin; Comrie, Bernard. Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 382-408.
Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2010). Language. In: Bornstein, Marc. Handbook of cultural developmental science. New York, London: Psychology Press, 143-160.
Paudyal, Netra P; Bickel, Balthasar; Schikowski, Robert; Stoll, Sabine; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Novel Kishore; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang. Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132.
Stoll, Sabine; Gries, Stefan Th (2009). How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach. Journal of Child Language, 36(5):1075-1090.
Stoll, Sabine (2009). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition. In: Bavin, Edith. The Cambridge handbook of child language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-89.
Stoll, Sabine; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena (2009). Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, German and English child-directed speech. Cognitive Science, 33:75-103.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2009). How deep are differences in referential density?. In: Guo, Jiansheng; Lieven, Elena; Budwig, Nancy; Ervin-Tripp, Susan; Nakamura, Keiko; Özçalişkan, Şeyda. Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin. London: Psychology Press, 543-555.
Rai, Ichchha Purna; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Manoj; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language. In: Mukherjee, Rila; Rajesh, M N. Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20-33.
Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83(1):43-73.
Rai, Novel Kishore; Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang. In: Yadava, Yogendra P. Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209.
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu. In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna. Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 33-47.
Stoll, Sabine (2005). Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian. Journal Of Child Language, 32(04):805-825.
Stoll, Sabine (2003). Kognitive Entwicklung und Aspekterwerb. In: Haberzettl, Stefanie; Wegener, Heide. Spracherwerb und Konzeptualisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 127-138.
Stoll, Sabine. The acquisition of Russian aspect. 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty of Arts.
Stoll, Sabine (2000). On the Desinence {-t(')} of the Early East Slavic Imperfect. Russian Linguistics, 24(2):265-285.
Stoll, Sabine (1998). The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian aspect. First Language, 18(54):351-376.

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Mazara, Jekatarina; Loporcaro, Michele; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts. In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 July 2024 - 27 July 2024. UC Merced, 2496-2502.
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra; Rai, Arjun; Rai, Ichchha; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Rai, Vishnu Singh; Gautam, Narayan; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP). European Bulletin Of Himalayan Research, 28:90-97.

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Gries, Stefan; Stoll, Sabine (2009). Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 16:217-242.

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