Publications:
Horvath, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2023). Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: advances and cautionary tales. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 15(44).
Kueser, J.B., Horvath, S., & Borovsky, A. (2023). Two pathways in vocabulary development: Large-scale differences in noun and verb semantic structure. Cognitive Psychology, 143, 101574.
Leonard, L.B., Deevy, P., Horvath, S., Christ, S.L., Karpicke, J., & Kueser, J.B. (2023). Can retrieval practice facilitate verb learning in children with developmental language disorder and their peers with typical language development? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(4), 1309-1333.
Horvath, S., Kueser, J. K., Kelly, J., & Borovsky, A. (2022). Difference or delay? Syntax, semantics, and verb vocabulary development in typically developing and late-talking toddlers. Language Learning and Development, 18(3), 352-376.
Horvath, S. & Arunachalam, S. (2021). Repetition versus variability in verb learning: Sometimes less is more. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(11), 4235-4249.
Horvath, S. (2019). The verb vocabularies and verb-learning mechanisms of late talkers. Dissertation.
Horvath, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2019). Optimal contexts for verb learning. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4(6), 1239-1249.
Horvath, S., Rescorla, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2019). The syntactic and semantic features of two-year olds’ verb vocabularies: A comparison of typically developing children and late talkers. Journal of Child Language, 46(3), 409–432.
Horvath, S., McDermott, E., Reilly, K., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Acquisition of verb meaning from syntactic distribution in preschoolers with ASD. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 668-680.
Horvath, S., Rescorla, L., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Acquiring a verb lexicon: Semantic features of toddlers’ early vocabularies. In K. Syrett & S. Arunachalam, (eds.), Semantics in Acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition Research. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Horvath, S. & Brownstein, N. (under review). Does verb timing impact referential mapping in children with developmental language disorder? A feasibility study
Horvath, S., & Doleski, V. (in revision). Can Artificial Intelligence be used to calculate MLU? An exploratory study using ChatGPT.
Horvath, S., Walker, C., Kotz, K., & Brownstein, N. (in prep). Revisiting manner and result verb learning: Evidence from the Human Simulation Paradigm.
Kueser, J.K., Horvath, S., & Borvosky, A. (in prep). Semantic feature norms for early-learned English verbs.
Press articles featuring my research:
Toddler Speech and the MACAW Lab, by the MUSC Science Never Sleeps podcast
Magic Words, by Inside Sargent
Alumni Spotlights, by the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Boston University
Online community outreach:
Tinyhood Q&A, October 2017
Tinyhood Q&A, March 2017
Tinyhood Profile
Award announcements:
ASHFoundation Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development, supported by the Arlene M. and Noel D. Matkin Memorial Fund (awarded 2016)
ASHA RMPTA Award (awarded 2014; 2019)
Sabrina Horvath 