Invited talks:

  1. Alton Chao, Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2025). Language experience and prediction across age groups: evidence from diachronic fine-tuning of language models. For the MRPI Planning Grant: Leveraging California’s Linguistic Diversity to Improve Large Language Models. University of California

Talks:

  1. Alton Chao, Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2025). Language experience and prediction across age groups: evidence from diachronic fine-tuning of language models. At the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP[8]). Davis, CA
  2. Ellis Cain, Alton Chao, & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Diachronic language change explains apparent age-related differences in information-theoretic efficiency. At the Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS). Saarbrucken, Germany
  3. Ellis Cain, Alton Chao, & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Stability in the production of syntactic attachment across the lifespan. At the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP[7]). San Diego, CA
  4. Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Diachronic change in verb usage statistics predicts differences in sentence processing across the lifespan. At the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand
  5. Ellis Cain, Brown-Schmidt, S., & Rachel Ryskin (2023). Diachronic Verb Usage Statistics and Sentence Processing Across the Lifespan. At the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA
  6. Ellis Cain, Rachel Ryskin, & Chen Yu (2022). Quantifying cross-situational statistics during parent-child toy play. At the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada

Posters:

  1. Alton Chao, Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2025). Language experience and prediction across the lifespan: evidence from diachronic fine-tuning of language models. At the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. San Francisco, CA
  2. Ellis Cain, Alton Chao, & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Diachronic language change explains apparent age-related differences in information-theoretic efficiency. At the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP[7]). San Diego, CA
  3. Ellis Cain, Elizabeth Geballe, & Tyler Marghetis. (2024). Translation as Transmission: Disentangling the impact of cultural context from cultural transmission using an unusual English-to-English cycle of 19th century literary translations. At the Cultural Evolution Society Conference (CES). Durham, UK
  4. Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2024). Neural Signatures of Language Processing Across the Lifespan. At the Symposium of the Center for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience. Merced, CA
  5. Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2023). Diachronic Language Change and Its Influence on Lexico-semantic Representations Across the Lifespan. At the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney, AUS
  6. Ellis Cain (2023). Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks? Learning Rates, Aging, And Language Change. At California Workshop on Evolutionary Social Science (CWESS). Merced, CA
  7. Ellis Cain, & Rachel Ryskin (2022). Diachronic language change and meaning across the lifespan. At Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). York, UK