Recent publications
Article
Hsiao, Y, Dawson, NJ, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2024, 'A corpus-based developmental investigation of linguistic complexity in children's writing', Applied Corpus Linguistics, vol. 4, no. 1, 100084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100084
Dong, Y, Hsiao, Y-L, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2024, 'The Emotional Content of Children's Writing: A Data-Driven Approach', Cognitive Science, vol. 48, no. 3, e13423. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13423
Dawson, N, Hsiao, Y-L, Tan, AWM, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2023, 'Effects of Target Age and Genre on Morphological Complexity in Children’s Reading Material', Scientific Studies of Reading, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 529-556. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2206574
Nation, K, Dawson, NJ & Hsiao, Y 2022, 'Book language and its implications for children’s language, literacy, and development', Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 375-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221103264
Taylor, E, Nation, K & Hsiao, Y 2022, 'Context availability and sentence availability ratings for 3,000 English words and their association with lexical processing', Journal of Cognition, vol. 5, no. 1, 20. https://doi.org/10.5334/JOC.211
Hsiao, Y, Dawson, NJ, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2022, 'The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: a developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar', Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000957
Mak, MHC, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2021, 'Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 118, 104203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104203
Hsiao, Y, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2021, 'Boys write about boys: androcentrism in children’s reading experience and its emergence in children’s own writing', Child Development, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 2194-2204. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13623
Dawson, NJ, Hsiao, Y-L, Tan, AWM, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2021, 'Features of lexical richness in children's books: comparisons with child-directed speech', Language Development Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 9-53. https://doi.org/10.34842/5we1-yk94
Mak, MHC, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2021, 'Lexical connectivity effects in immediate serial recall of words', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1971-1997. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001089
Pagán, A, Bird, M, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2020, 'Both Semantic Diversity and Frequency Influence Children’s Sentence Reading', Scientific Studies of Reading, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 356-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1670664
Hsiao, Y, Bird, M, Norris, H, Pagán, A & Nation, K 2020, 'The influence of item-level contextual history on lexical and semantic judgments by children and adults.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2367-2383. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000795
Abstract
Dong, Y, Nation, K, Hsiao, Y-L & Dawson, N 2023, 'The Development in Emotional Content of Children’s Writing: Are Children Getting Less Happy?', Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol. 45, pp. 1132-1132. <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8j3605ts>
Conference contribution
Hsiao, Y-L, Mak, MHC & Nation, K 2022, The Effect of Semantic Diversity on Serial Recall for Words. in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Preprint
Hsiao, Y-L, Dawson, NJ, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2022 'A corpus-based developmental investigation of lexical richness and syntactic complexity in children's written stories' SSRN. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4198377>