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Recent work:

Howitt, Katherine, Scontras, G., and M. Polinsky. to appear. English restrictive relative clauses are subject to crossover violations. Linguistic Inquiry. link

Howitt, Katherine, Phillips, C., and Lidz, J. (2025). Strong Crossover, weak evidence: 4 year old’s knowledge of the strong crossover constraint. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 50. abstract.

Howitt, Katherine, Nair, S., Dods, A., & Hopkins, R. (2024). Generalizations across filler-gap dependencies in neural language models. CoNLL 2024 link pdf

Nair, S., Howitt, Katherine, Dods, A., & Hopkins, R. (2024). LMs are not good proxies for human language learners. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 49. slides.

Howitt, Katherine, Phillips, C., and Lidz, J. (2024). Probing 4 year old children’s knowledge of the strong crossover constraint. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 3. poster.

Lee, E., Howitt, Katherine, Dixon, L., Ness, T., Nakamura, M., Muller, H., & Phillips, C. (2023) Alignment between adult and child predictive processing dynamics: Evidence from a gamified cloze study in a museum. (poster) The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. poster.

Howitt, Katherine, Dey, S., Sakas, W. G. (2021) Gradual syntactic triggering: the gradient parameter hypothesis. Language Acquisition, 28:1, 65-96, DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2020.1803329 pdf

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