2025

The Role of Abstract Representations and Observed Preferences in the Ordering of Binomials in Large Language Models

Houghton, Z. N., Sagae, K., & Morgan, E.

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2: Short Papers, pp. 695–702.

2025

A Novel Dataset for Testing Anti-spoofing Models in a Telephony Environment

Houghton, Z. N., Pluth, D., Hosier, J., & Gurbani, V.

IEEE International Conference and Expo on Real Time Communications at IIT (RTC). IEEE.

2024

Frequency-dependent preference extremity arises from a noisy-channel processing model

Houghton, Z. N., & Morgan, E.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 46.

2024

How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses? An investigation into word comprehension

Bastos, A. P., Evenson, A., Wood, P. M., Houghton, Z. N., Smith, G. E., … & Rossano, F.

PLOS ONE, 19(8).

2023

Does Predictability Drive the Holistic Storage of Compound Nouns?

Houghton, Z. N., & Morgan, E.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 45.

2023

Task-dependent consequences of disfluency in perception of native and non-native speech

Houghton, Z. N., Kato, M., Baese-Berk, M. M., & Vaughn, C.

Applied Psycholinguistics, 1–17.

2023

Are your random effects normal? A simulation study of methods for estimating whether subjects or items come from more than one population

Houghton, Z. N., & Kapatsinski, V.

Behavior Research Methods.

Conference Presentations

Jul 2025

The Role of Abstract Representations and Observed Preferences in the Ordering of Binomials in Large Language Models

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) — Poster

Mar 2025

The effects of frequency and predictability on the representation of multi-word phrases in English

Human Sentence Processing (HSP) — Poster

Jul 2024

Frequency-dependent regularization arises from a noisy-channel processing model

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) — Poster

Jan 2024

Recognizability of up in multi-word phrases in English

California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) — Poster

Jul 2023

Effects of predictability on the storage of linguistic units

Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) — Invited Talk

Mar 2022

Effects of predictability on the processing and storage of linguistic units

Human Sentence Processing (HSP) — Poster

Dec 2020

Perceptual consequences of pauses

Acoustical Society of America — Poster