Publications

In progress

Fazekas, J., Blything, L. & Ambridge, B. No surprises: Strong evidence against a prime surprisal effect from a large-scale dative study with multiple surprisal predictors. (Preprint).
Wang, Q., Berlot, E., Fazekas, J., Szewczyk, J. & de Lange, F. Predictive Neural Signals during Natural Mandarin Speech Comprehension. (Preprint).
Fazekas, J., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. The potential scope of error-based theories of language acquisition: exploring prime surprisal in transitive and dative structures. (Preprint).

Stage 1 Registered Reports

Fazekas, J. & Vidal, Y., Pine, J. & Brusini, P. The babe with the predictive power: a registered report examining the role of prediction in early word learning. Developmental Science, Stage 1 Acceptance, 2022. (Stage 1 Registered Report).

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Fazekas, J., Buckle, L. & Branigan, H. (2025), Hedgehog pillows and squirrel plates: Priming of semantic structure in children’s comprehension. Language Learning. Available online ahead of print)
Kolak, J., Vihman, V., Engelmann, F., Granlund, S., Theakston, A. Lieven, E., Pine, J., Fazekas, J. & Ambridge, B. (2025) Why learners privilege word-order over case-marking: A cross-linguistic meta-analysis, new data from Estonian, Finnish and Polish, and a discriminative learning model. Psychological Review. Available online ahead of print.
Fazekas, J., Sala, G. & Pine, J. (2024) Prime Surprisal as a Tool for Assessing Error-Based Learning Theories: A Systematic Review. Languages 9(4), 147. doi.org/10.3390/languages9040147
Samara, A., Wonnacott, E., Saxena, G., Maitreyee, R., Fazekas, J., & Ambridge, B. (2024) Learners restrict their linguistic generalizations using preemption but not entrenchment: evidence from artificial language learning studies with adults and children. Psychological Review, 132(1), 1–17. doi.org/10.1037/rev0000463
Fazekas, J., Jessop, A., Pine, J., & Rowland, C. (2020) Do children learn from their prediction mistakes? A registered report evaluating error-based theories of language acquisition. Royal Society Open Science 7 (11), 180877. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180877
Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Schmandt, S., Fazekas, J., Nazzi, T., & Gervain, J. (2018) Infants’ sensitivity to non-adjacent vowel dependencies: The case of vowel harmony in Hungarian. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 178, 170-183.
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