Psychology Faculty

Joshua Hartshorne

Assistant Professor

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Joshua Hartshorne

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 522

Telephone: 617-552-0463

Email: joshua.hartshorne@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Courses

PSYC5563 The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition

Research Interests

Language acquisition. Syntax. Semantics. Pragmatics. Critical periods in skill acquisition. The relationship between language and common sense. Syntactic and semantic bootstrapping. Methods include computational modeling, judgment studies, self-paced reading, eye-tracking, ERPs, crowdsourcing, and citizen science.

Lab

McGuinn 524

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Biography

Dr. Hartshorne received his Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University (advisor: Jesse Snedeker) and did his post-doctoral research at MIT with Josh Tenenbaum. Prior to graduate school, he worked with John Monahan, Yuhong Jiang, and Michael Ullman.

Representative Publications

Hartshorne, J. K., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Pinker, S. (2018). A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition.

Hartshorne, J. K., O’Donnell, T. J., Sudo, Y., Uruwashi, M., Lee, M., & Snedeker, J. (2016). Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language. Cognition.

Hartshorne, J. K., & Germine, L. T. (2015). When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the life span. Psychological Science, 26(4):433–443.

Language Learning Lab

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