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59
Citations
36499
World Ranking
1508
National Ranking
720

Overview

Adele E. Goldberg is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology, computer science, and neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Goldberg's research covers a broad array of main topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language and cultural evolution, language development and disorders, natural language processing techniques, language, metaphor, and cognition, reading and literacy development, and syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation.

Their frequent collaborators reflect a multidisciplinary approach and include Robert D. Hawkins, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman, Nicole Cuneo, and Sammy Floyd.

Publication venues where Goldberg has frequently contributed include arXiv (Cornell University), Cognition, Language, Linguistics, and Psychological Review. This distribution indicates engagement with both preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals across cognitive science and linguistics.

Representative recent publications include:

  • The nice-of-you construction and its fragments, 2021, Linguistics
  • From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention, 2022, Psychological Review
  • Good-enough language production, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Children make use of relationships across meanings in word learning, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Metaphorical language processing and amygdala activation in L1 and L2, 2020, Neuropsychologia

Best Publications

  • Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

    Adele Goldberg;David Robson

  • Constructions: a new theoretical approach to language

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions

    Adele E. Goldberg;R. A. Y. Jackendoff

  • SmallTalk 80: The Language

    Adele Goldberg;David Robson

  • Constructions at Work

    Adele Goldberg

  • Learning argument structure generalizations.

    Adele E. Goldberg;Devin M. Casenhiser;Nitya Sethuraman

  • Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • The contribution of argument structure constructions to sentence meaning

    Giulia M.L Bencini;Adele E Goldberg

  • Fast mapping between a phrasal form and meaning.

    Devin M Casenhiser;Adele E Goldberg

  • Conceptual structure, discourse and language

    Adele E. Goldberg;Discourse Conceptual Structure

  • The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • The nature of generalization in language

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • Metaphorical sentences are more emotionally engaging than their literal counterparts

    Francesca M. M. Citron;Adele E. Goldberg;Adele E. Goldberg

  • Patient arguments of causative verbs can be omitted:the role of information structure in argument distribution

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • The Emergence of the Semantics of Argument Structure Constructions

    Adele E. Goldberg

  • Can thematic roles leave traces of their places

    Franklin Chang;Kathryn Bock;Adele E Goldberg

  • Learning What NOT to Say: The Role of Statistical Preemption and Categorization in A-Adjective Production

    Jeremy K. Boyd;Adele E. Goldberg

  • Patterns of Experience in Patterns of Language

    Adele E. Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff Tufts University
Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
Helene Intraub
Helene Intraub University of Delaware
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Jesse Snedeker
Jesse Snedeker Harvard University
Kathryn Bock
Kathryn Bock University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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