Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Huber, E., Küntay, A. C., Bickel, B., & Stoll, S. (2026). The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages Cognitive Science, 50, e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
• Morozova, N., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2025). Language‐Invariant Strategies of Navigating Transitions in Joint Activities: Forms and Functions of Coordination Markers Cognitive Science, 49(11), e70133. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70133
• Çabuk-Ballı, S., Küntay, A. C., Widmer, P., & Stoll, S. (2025). The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages First Language, 45, 596–621. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251336806
• Schick, J., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children Developmental Science, 28, e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70045
• Mine, J. G., Dees, L. C., Wilke, C., Willems Erik P., Machanda Zarin P., Muller, M. N., Emery Thompson, M., Wrangham, R. W., Scully, E. J., Langergraber, K., Stoll, S., Slocombe, K. E., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal–visual communicative behavior PLoS Biology, 23, e3003270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003270
• Wegdell, F., Fryns, C., Schick, J., Nellissen, L., Laporte, M., Surbeck, M., van Noordwijk, M. A., Masi, S., Hellwig, B., Willems, E. P., Zuberbühler, K., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes Science Advances, 11, eadt7718. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
• You, G., Ger, E., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish Journal of Child Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000200
• Schick, J., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development Open Mind, 9, 665–676. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00198
• Çabuk-Ballı, S., Mazara, J., Küntay, A. C., Hellwig, B., Pfeiler, B. B., Widmer, P., & Stoll, S. (2025). Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific? Cognitive Science, 49, e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70044
• Mine, J. G., Wilke, C., Zulberti, C., Behjati, M., Bosshard, A. B., Stoll, S., Machanda, Z. P., Manser, A., Slocombe, K. E., & Townsend, S. W. (2024). Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78, 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03523-x
• You, G., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2024). Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics Cognitive Science, 48, e13495. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13495
• Morozova, N., You, G., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 4763–4767. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2204
• Mazara, J., Loporcaro, M., & Stoll, S. (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2496–2502. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16b5s7hq
• Hardegger, S., Mazara, J., Küntay, A. C., Hellwig, B., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2024). Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children’s early lexical development. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2354–2361. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7254q3jb
• Stoll, S. (2023). Word Classes in First Language Acquisition In E. Van Lier (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes (pp. 865–875). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198852889.013.36
• Rüst, O., Baroni, M., & Stoll, S. (2023). Getting Creative: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Child Utterances in 12 Typologically Diverse Languages BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 672–685. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-54.pdf
• Feurstein, L., Furrer, R., & Stoll, S. (2023). Turn-Taking Predicts Vocabulary Acquisition at 18 Months: A Study of Daylong Recordings In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (Eds.), BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 255–267). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-21.pdf
• Ger, E., You, G., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives Cognitive Science, 46, 13210. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13210
• Bosshard, A. B., Leroux, M., Lester, N. A., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3
• Mazara, J., Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 3696–3702. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/62r4g9j9
• Rüst, O., Baroni, M., & Stoll, S. (2022). The Acquisition of Case Systems in Typologically Diverse Languages: Children Gradually Generalize Grammatical Rules (Y. Gong & F. Kpogo, Eds.; pp. 672–685). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-51.pdf
• Ger, E., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal? Language and Cognition, 14, 161–184. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2021.26
• Schick, J., Fryns, C., Wegdell, F., Laporte, M., Zuberbühler, K., van Schaik, C. P., Townsend, S. W., & Stoll, S. (2022). The function and evolution of child-directed communication PLoS Biology, 20, e3001630. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630
• Lester, N. A., Moran, S., Küntay, A. C., Allen, S. E. M., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages Cognition, 221, 104986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104986
• Loukatou, G., Stoll, S., Blasi, D., & Cristia, A. (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling Cognition, 220, 104960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104960
• Mansfield, J., Saldana, C., Hurst, P., Nordlinger, R., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Perfors, A. (2022). Category Clustering and Morphological Learning Cognitive Science, 46, e13107. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13107
• Ger, E., Stuber, L., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2021). Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105182
• You, G., Bickel, B., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11, 16527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95392-x
• Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang (No. 43). 840–846. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5px0n9ck
• You, G., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2020). Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach 818–828. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-61.pdf
• Collier, K., Radford, A. N., Stoll, S., Watson, S. K., Manser, M. B., Bickel, B., & Townsend, S. 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, 20192514. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514
• Stoll, S. (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development In C. Rowland, K. E. Twomey, B. Ambridge, & A. Theakston (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition (No. 27; pp. 247–263). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.11sto
• Stoll, S., & Schikowski, R. (2020). Child-language corpora In M. Paquot & S. Gries (Eds.), A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (pp. 305–329). Springer.
• Mansfield, J., Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking Language, 96, 255–293. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0021
• Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2019). How Do Children Become Flexible in Their Use of Grammatical Categories? The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 363–375. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/44/BUCLD44-29.pdf
• Lester, N., Bickel, B., Moran, S., & Stoll, S. (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang (M. M. Brown & A. Kohut, Eds.; pp. 280–293). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/44/BUCLD44-23.pdf
• Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2019). Development of Verb Morphology: From Item-Specificity to Proficient Use 2325–2331. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2019/papers/0404/0404.pdf
• Blasi, D., Cotterell, R., Wolf-Sonkin, L., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Baroni, M. (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study In A. Korhonen, D. Traum, & L. Màrquez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 3938–3943). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P19-1384
• Moran, S., Pajović, D., & Stoll, S. (2018). Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech In N. Calzolari (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) (pp. 4100–4105). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/pdf/887.pdf
• Jung, D., Klein, M., & Stoll, S. (2018). Language transition(s): School responses to recent changes in language choice in a northern Dene community (Canada) In G. Wigglesworth, J. Simpson, & G. Vaughan (Eds.), Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School (pp. 49–69). Palrgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_3
• Townsend, S. W., Engesser, S., Stoll, S., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans PLoS Biology, 16, e2006425. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006425
• Bühler, J. C., von Oertzen, T., McBride, C. A., Stoll, S., & Maurer, U. (2018). Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1 Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30, 336–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1444614
• Moran, S., Blasi, D. E., Schikowski, R., Küntay, A. C., Pfeiler, B., Allen, S., & Stoll, S. (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames Cognition, 175, 131–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.005
• Stoll, S., Mazara, J., & Bickel, B. (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang In M. D. Fortescue, M. Mithun, & N. Evans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis (pp. 495–514). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.28
• Townsend, S. W., Koski, S. E., Byrne, R. W., Slocombe, K. E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Braga Goncalves, I., Burkart, J. M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F., Glock, H. J., Gruber, T., Jansen, D. A. W. A. M., Liebal, K., Linke, A., Miklósi, Á., Moore, R., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S., … Manser, M. B. (2017). Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92, 1427–1433. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12289
• Moran, S., Schikowski, R., Pajović, D., Hysi, C., & Stoll, S. (2016). The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language 4423–4429.
• Stoll, S. (2016). Studying language acquisition in different linguistic and cultural settings. In N. Bonvillain (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (pp. 140–158). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203492741
• Stoll, S. (2015). Inflectional morphology in language acquisition In M. Baerman (Ed.), Handbook of inflectional morphology (pp. 351–375). Oxford University Press.
• Stoll, S. (2015). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 89–104). Cambridge University Press.
• Stoll, S., Zakharko, T., Moran, S., Schikowski, R., & Bickel, B. (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 82. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00082
• Bavin, E., & Stoll, S. (2013). The acquisition of ergativity (E. Bavin & S. Stoll, Eds.; Vol. 9). Benjamins.
• Stoll, S., & Lieven, E. (2013). Studying language acquisition crosslinguistically In H. Winskel (Ed.), Handbook of South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics (pp. 19–36). Cambridge University Press.
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), Language Typology and Historical Contingency (No. 104; pp. 195–216). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.104.08slo/details
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang In S. Stoll & E. Bavin (Eds.), The acquisition of ergativity (pp. 183–207). Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tilar.9.07sto/details
• Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2013). Early communicative development in two cultures: A comparison of the communicative environments of children from two cultures Human Development, 56, 178–206. https://doi.org/10.1159/000351073
• Gaenszle, M., Rai, I. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., & Stoll, S. (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident’ of 1979 and the politics of commemoration. In M. Lecomte-Tilouine (Ed.), Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People’s War (pp. 97–113). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198089384.003.0004
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications In F. Seifart, G. L. J. Haig, N. P. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, P. Trilsbeek, & P. Wittenburg (Eds.), Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization (pp. 84–90). University of Hawai‘i Press.
• Stoll, S., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Paudyal, N. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Rai, N. K. (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children’s usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39, 284–321. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000911000080
• राईनोवल किशोर, राईमनोज, पौड्यालनेत्र प्रसाद, Schikowski, R., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., Gaenszle, M., बन्जादेगोमा, राईइच्छा पूर्णा, भट्टतोया नाथ, Sauppe, S., राईरिखी माया, राईजनक कुमारी, राईलास कुमारी, राईदुर्ग बहादुर, राईगणेश, राईदयाराम, राईदुर्ग कुमारी, राईअनिता, … Dirksmeyer, T. (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण MPI.
• Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2010). Language In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of cultural developmental science (pp. 143–160). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.06.005
• Bickel, B., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Rai, I. P., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) In A. Malchukov, M. Haspelmath, & B. Comrie (Eds.), Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook (pp. 382–408). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220377
• Paudyal, N. P., Bickel, B., Schikowski, R., Stoll, S., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Gaenszle, M., Rai, N. K., & Bhatta, T. N. (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang Nepalese Linguistics, 25, 121–132.
• Stoll, S. (2009). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In E. Bavin (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of child language (pp. 69–89). Cambridge University Press.
• Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2009). How deep are differences in referential density? In J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig, S. Ervin-Tripp, K. Nakamura, & Ş. Özçalişkan (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin (pp. 543–555). Psychology Press.
• Stoll, S., & Gries, S. T. (2009). How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach Journal of Child Language, 36, 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000909009337
• Stoll, S., Abbot-Smith, K., & Lieven, E. (2009). Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, German and English child-directed speech Cognitive Science, 33, 75–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01004.x
• Rai, I. P., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, N. K., Stoll, S., & Bhatta, T. N. (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language In R. Mukherjee & M. N. Rajesh (Eds.), Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia (pp. 20–33). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Locality--History--Memory--The-Making-of-the-Citizen-in-South-Asia1-4438-0188-7.htm
• Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang Language, 83, 43–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2007.0002
• Stoll, S. (2005). Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian Journal of Child Language, 32, 805–825. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000905007142
• Rai, N. K., Bickel, B., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Stoll, S. (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang In Y. P. Yadava (Ed.), Current issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 205–209). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
• Gaenszle, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu In Y. P. Yadava, G. Bhattarai, R. R. Lohani, B. Prasain, & K. Parajuli (Eds.), Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 33–47). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
• Stoll, S. (2003). Kognitive Entwicklung und Aspekterwerb In S. Haberzettl & H. Wegener (Eds.), Spracherwerb und Konzeptualisierung (pp. 127–138). Peter Lang.
• Stoll, S. (2001). The acquisition of Russian aspect [UMI Publications]. (Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-86388
• Stoll, S. (2000). On the Desinence {-t(')} of the Early East Slavic Imperfect Russian Linguistics, 24, 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026513201806
• Stoll, S. (1998). The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian aspect First Language, 18, 351–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/014272379801805405