publications

You can view a full list of my research activities on my CV.

Journal Articles

  • Le, K. N., & Barner, D. (under review). The role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inferences. Preprint on PsyArxiv.
  • Le, K. N., Bale, A. C., & Barner, D. (under review). Object-mass nouns specify individuation lexically: Evidence from English and French. Preprint on PsyArxiv
  • Le, K. N., Schneider, R. M., & Barner, D. (2025). The Development of Cardinal Extension: From Counting to Exact Equality. Developmental Psychology, 61(6), 1180–1195. DOI
  • Bohn, M., Le, K. N., Peloquin, B., Köymen, B. & Frank, M.C. (2020). Children’s interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse. Developmental Science, 24, e13049. DOI

Peer-reviewed Proceedings

  • Le, K. N., Bale, A. C., & Barner, D. (2025). Who Has More Furniture? Context Effects on the Quantification of Mass vs. Count Superordinate Nouns. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47). paper
  • Le, K. N., Kwon, C., Wu, M., & Barner, D. (2024). ‘Five’ is the number of bunnies and hats: Children’s understanding of cardinal extension and exact number. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). paper
  • Duan, Y., Le, K. N. & Lupyan, G. (2024). Differences in distributional structure can lead to differences in similarity biases. In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (EVOLANG XV) (pp. 134-141). paper
  • Cheng, A. Y., Guo, M., Ran, M., Ranasaria, A., Sharma, A., Xie, A., Le, K. N., … & Landay, J. A. (2024). Scientific and Fantastical: Creating Immersive, Culturally Relevant Learning Experiences with Augmented Reality and Large Language Models. In CHI ‘24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. paper
  • Le, K. N., Gao, S., Frank, M. C., & Carstensen, A. (2023). Re-examining cross-cultural similarity judgments using language statistics. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45). paper

Preprints & Others

  • Le, K. N., & Barner, D. (2023). Syntax-Semantics Mappings of Superordinate Nouns: Mass-Count Syntax and Inferences about Functional Context. Preprint on PsyArxiv
  • Le, K. (2021). Is It Language or Is It Culture? Re-examining Cross-Cultural Similarity Judgments Using Lexical Co-Occurrence. Undergraduate honors thesis, Stanford University. Stanford Digital Repository. paper