Stanford linguists at CAMP[8]

The eighth California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP 8) was held November 14-16, 2025 in UC Davis. Cory Shain gave an invited talk titled "Psycholinguists need language models in order to bridge a hidden divide". The conference also featured the following presentations by Stanford linguists:

• Haley Hsu and Bran Papineau: "The Name Game: Does participant choice of lexical items lead to higher engagement?" (poster)
• Oliver Lee: "Acquisition asymmetries in wh-question production: Insights from K’iche’" (talk)
• Bran Papineau: "Integrating sociolinguistic and cognitive considerations in language processing and production" (talk)
• Nathan Roll, Jill Kries, Laura Gwilliams and Cory Shain: "Lesioned language models mimic human aphasias" (poster)
• Jess Mankewitz, Aja Altenhof, Claire Augusta Bergey, Robert D. Hawkins: "Caregivers strategically use contrastive negation to scaffold vocabulary learning"