Jeanette Sakel's Outputs (2)

The origins of the shape bias: Evidence from the Tsimané (2022)
Journal Article

In the United States, children often generalize the meaning of new words by assuming that objects with the same shape have the same name. We propose that this shape bias is influenced by children’s exposure to objects of different categories (artifac... Read More about The origins of the shape bias: Evidence from the Tsimané.

Grammatical borrowing from Spanish/Portuguese in some native languages of Latin America (2010)
Journal Article

In this paper I investigate how different factors can influence the range of grammatical categories affected by language contact, drawing on a sample of ten native languages of Latin America. The languages are all in contact with the highly dominant... Read More about Grammatical borrowing from Spanish/Portuguese in some native languages of Latin America.