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Overview

Padraic Monaghan is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on various domains of psychology, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. This specialization accounts for the majority of their scholarly output, complemented by contributions in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and education.

The main topics explored in their work cover a range of areas related to language and learning. These include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • ICT in Developing Communities

Monaghan has published frequently in several academic journals, with significant contributions to:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Language Learning

Their recent research papers include:

  • Comparing cross-situational word learning, retention, and generalisation in children with autism and typical development (2020, Cognition)
  • Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020, Cognitive Psychology)
  • Learning vocabulary and grammar from cross-situational statistics (2020, Cognition)
  • Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK (2020, Journal of Children and Media)
  • Distinctions in the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar: An Individual Differences Approach (2020, Language Learning)

Monaghan frequently collaborates with a number of scholars, including:

  • Patrick Rebuschat
  • Calum Hartley
  • Rebecca Louise Ann Frost
  • Gemma Taylor
  • Caroline F. Rowland

Their work integrates interdisciplinary approaches spanning psychology, language development, and digital technology. This diverse engagement highlights intersections between cognitive mechanisms and practical applications in education and digital media use among children.

Best Publications

  • Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

    Mark Dingemanse;Damián E. Blasi;Gary Lupyan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Exploring the relations between word frequency, language exposure, and bilingualism in a computational model of reading

    Padraic John Monaghan;Padraic John Monaghan;Ya-Ning Chang;Stephen Welbourne;Marc Brysbaert

  • How arbitrary is language

    Padraic Monaghan;Richard C. Shillcock;Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation

    Padraic Monaghan;Nick Chater;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension

    Thomas A. Farmer;Morten H. Christiansen;Padraic Monaghan

  • The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition.

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Richard Shillcock;Padraic Monaghan

  • Eye-fixation behavior, lexical storage, and visual word recognition in a split processing model.

    Richard Shillcock;T. Mark Ellison;Padraic Monaghan

  • The arbitrariness of the sign:learning advantages from the structure of the vocabulary

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen;Stanka A. Fitneva

  • Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing

    Luca Onnis;Padraic Monaghan;Korin Richmond;Nick Chater

  • Learning to Assign Lexical Stress during Reading Aloud: Corpus, Behavioral, and Computational Investigations.

    Joanne Arciuli;Padraic Monaghan;Nada Seva

  • Words in Puddles of Sound: Modelling Psycholinguistic Effects in Speech Segmentation.

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • From sound to syntax: phonological constraints on children's lexical categorization of new words.

    Stanka A. Fitneva;Morten H. Christiansen;Padraic Monaghan

  • Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: the learnability of embedded hierarchical structures.

    Meinou H. de Vries;Padraic Monaghan;Stefan Knecht;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • The role of sound symbolism in language learning.

    Padraic Monaghan;Karen Mattock;Peter Walker

  • Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving

    Ut Na Sio;Padraic Monaghan;Thomas C. Ormerod

  • Relationships Between Language Structure and Language Learning: The Suffixing Preference and Grammatical Categorization

    Michelle C. St. Clair;Padraic Monaghan;Michael Ramscar

  • Learning grammatical categories from distributional cues:Flexible frames for language acquisition

    Michelle C. St. Clair;Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Phonological typicality influences sentence processing in predictive contexts: reply to Staub, Grant, Clifton, and Rayner (2009).

    Thomas A. Farmer;Padraic Monaghan;Jennifer B. Misyak;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Jon Oberlander;Richard Cox;Padraic Monaghan;Keith Stenning

  • Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent dependencies

    L Onnis;P Monaghan;MH Christiansen;N Chater

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig Max Planck Society
Richard Shillcock
Richard Shillcock University of Edinburgh
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Caroline F. Rowland
Caroline F. Rowland Radboud University
Joanne Arciuli
Joanne Arciuli Flinders University
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Tatjana A. Nazir
Tatjana A. Nazir Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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