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Línies d’investigació / Research interests

Publicacions recents / Recent publications

2026
Brochhagen, T., Liao X., Wright J., & Saldana, C. (2026) The interaction of meanings’ similarity and confusability explains regularity in form-meaning mappings at and below the word level. Nature Human Behaviour. [article] [OSF project]

Saldana, C., Montecchiari, E. A., Culbertson, J., & Maldonado, M. (2026). Singling out singular: Exploring cognitive biases underlying probable category partitions in nominal number systems. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.  [article] [OSF project]

Maldonado, M., Culbertson, J., & Saldana, C. (2026). When two is a crowd: Evidence for asymmetric number representations. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. [article] [OSF project]

Saldana, C., Ivani, J. K., & Franzon, F. (2026). Do cross-linguistic animacy-based constraints on plural marking reflect learning biases? In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. [preprint] [OSF project]

Boleda, G., Dautriche, I., Maldonado, M., Saldana, C., & Torrent, T. (Eds.). (2026). Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 48). Cognitive Science Society. 

Saldana, C., & Herce, B. (2026). Morpheme. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and linguistics (3rd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 163–167). Elsevier. [chapter] [preprint]

López-Sánchez, G. & Saldana, C. (2026) Verbal Prefixes can Behave Like Inflection in a Strongly Suffixal Language: Distributional Semantic Insights into the Derivation-Inflection Divide in Polish Aspectual Morphology. Proceedings of the 22nd International Morphology Meeting  [abstract] [code]

Saldana, C., Cathcart C., Ivani, J., Bickel B., & Maldonado, M. (in revision) Cross-linguistic regularities in pronominal number neutralisation are not driven by learning biases: Limits of the Typological Prevalence Hypothesis for morphosyntactic categories. [preprint]  [OSF project]

2025
Saldana, C., Kanampiu, P., & Culbertson, J. (2025)  Gender comes first: Experimental evidence for the representation of gender closer to the noun stem than number across linguistic populations. Linguistic Inquiry. [article] [preprint] [OSF project]

Culbertson, J., Blasi, D., Federici, F. M., Nefdt, R., Saldana, C., Smith, K., Sorace, A., Townsend, S., & Yovel, Y. (2025). Language and Communication. In GESDA Breakthrough Radar. Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA). (Authors listed alphabetically.) [report] [website]

Li, Ch., Saldana, C.,  & Culbertson, J., (2025) Can input statistics over-ride a prior bias in morpheme ordering? A test case with gender and number. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  [article]

2024
Saldana, C. & Maldonado, M. (2024) Exploring horizontal homophony in pronominal paradigms: A case study where cross-linguistic regularities defy individual learning biases.  Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  [OSF project] [article]

2023
Saldana, C.*, Herce, B.*,  Mansfield, J. & Bickel, B. (2023) Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits. Glossa. [OSF project] [article]

Saldana, C., & Culbertson, J. (2023) Speakers’ cognitive representations of gender and number morphology shape cross-linguistic tendencies in morpheme order. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [OSF project][article]

2022
Saldana, C.*,  Herce, B.* & Bickel, B. (2022) More or less unnatural: Semantic similarity shapes the learnability and cross-linguistic distribution of syncretism in morphological paradigms. Open Mind. (Finalist for the Early Career Award prize by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences ) [OSF project] [article] 

Maldonado, M., & Saldana, C. (2022) Interpretations of plurality in personal pronouns differ across person categories: An experimental study.  Proceedings of the 23rd  Amsterdam Colloquium.  [OSF project] [article]

Saldana, C., Claidière, N., Fagot, J. & Smith, K. (2022) Probability Matching is Not the Default Decision Making Strategy in Human and Non-Human Primates. Scientific Reports. [OSF project] [article]

Saldana, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). A Naturalness Gradient Shapes the Learnability and Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Morphological Paradigms. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [OSF project 1] [OSF project 2][article]

Schick, J., Saldana, C.,  Zuberbühler, K., & Stoll, Sabine (2022).Declarative and imperative pointing acts by infants can be distinguished by accompanying preverbal vocalisations. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. [OSF project] [article][abstract]

Mansfield, J., Saldana, C.,  Hurst, P.,  Nordlinger, R.,  Stoll, S., Bickel, B. & Perfors, A. (2022) Category clustering and morphological learning. Cognitive Science. [OSF project] [article]

2021
Saldana, C.,  Smith K., Kirby S. and Culbertson J. (2021) Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? A comparison between morphology and word order.  Language Learning and Development.  (Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award )[OSF project] [article] 

Saldana, C., Oseki, Y. & Culbertson, J. (2021) Cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect cognitive biases: An experimental study of case and number morphology.  Journal of Memory and Language. [OSF project] [article]

2020
Maldonado, M., Saldana, C. and Culbertson, J. (2020) Learning biases in person-number linearization. In M. Asatryan, Y. Song  & A. Whitmal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (Vol 2, pp. 163-176).  Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts GLSA. [OSF project] [pdf]

Saldana, C., Claidière, N., Fagot, J. & Smith, K. (2020). Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys.  In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 752-758).  [OSF project] [pdf] 

2019
Saldana C., Fagot, J., Kirby S., Smith K. and Claidière, N. (2019) High-fidelity copying is not necessarily the key to cumulative cultural evolution:  a study with monkeys and children. Proceedings of the Royal Society B  [article] [pdf] [data] [OSF project]

Saldana, C., Kirby S., Truswell R. and Smith K. (2019) Compositional hierarchical structure evolves through cultural transmission: an experimental study. Journal of Language Evolution. [article] [data] [OSF project]

Saldana, C., Smith, K., Kirby, S., Fagot, J. & Claidière, N. (2019) Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons.  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [OSF project] [pdf]

Saldana, C., Oseki, Y. & Culbertson, J. (2019) Do cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect a cognitive bias? Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [OSF project] [pdf]

Up to 2018
Saldana, C., Kirby, S., Smith K. and Culbertson, J. (2017) Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink  & E. Davelaar (Eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Saldaña Gascón, C. (2012) Estudio paremiológico intergeneracional. Paremia, 21 (2012), 187-196. Madrid: Centro Virtual Cervantes.