Educational Background

• BA, Simon Fraser University, 1996

• PhD, University of Rochester, 2003

Research Interests

Acquisition of syntax and morphology, word learning (especially abstract meanings), language and early literacy development, gesture and language learning and processing, non-linguistic constraints on language learning and language form, language contact and language change

Courses Recently Taught

• Ling 222: Language Acquisition

• Ling 452: Acquisition of Syntax

Hudson Kam, C.L., Sadlier-Brown, E., Clark, S., Jang, C. Demmans Epp, C., & Thomson, J. (2024). Evaluating English-language morphological awareness assessments. First Language, 44, 327-344.

Sadlier-Brown, E., Lou, M., Silfverberg, M., & Hudson Kam, C. L. (2024). How useful is context, actually? Comparing LLMs and humans on discourse marker prediction. In     T. Kuribayashi, G. Rambelli, E. Takmaz, P. Wicke & Y. Oseki (Eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (231–241. Association for Computational Linguistics. (https://aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.20)

Tkachman, O., Sadlier-Brown, E., Lo, R., & Hudson Kam, C. (2024). Transparency in sign forms: When and how does iconicity matter. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (1948-1952).

Tkachman, O. & Hudson Kam, C. L. (2024). Semantics-based spontaneous compounding emergence in artificial sign languages. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang) 2024 (505-507).

Hudson Kam, C., Bittman, C., Paget, E., & Wellburn, E. (2021). The ABCs of Language Development: Discover language with your child. KidCare Canada Society. Victoria, BC.

Hudson Kam, C. L. (2021). Adult learners’ (non-)acquisition of speaker-specific variation. In A. Ghimenton, A. Nardy, and J.-P. Chevrot (Eds.) Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition Across the Lifespan (pp. 295-315). John Benjamins Publishing Company

Tkachman, O., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2020). Conventionalization and Typology: The establishment of shared lexical and structural forms in different types of sign languages. Sign Language & Linguistics, 23, 208-232.

Hudson Kam, C.L., & Tkachman, O. (2020). Iconicity and interpretability in language emergence: Constraints on the emergence of the use of space in sign languages. Language Dynamics and Change, 10, 127-157.

Hudson Kam, C. L. (2020). Infant and adult language experience can differ in more than one way: Reply to Arnon (2018). Language Learning and Development, 16(1), 43-48. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2019.168121

Hudson Kam, C. L. (2019). Reconsidering retrieval effects on adult regularization of inconsistent variation in language. Language Learning and Development, 15(4), 317-337. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2019.1634575

Goodrich Smith, W., Black, A., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2019). Learning speech internal cues to pronoun interpretation from co-speech gesture: A training study. Journal of Child Language, 46, 433-458.

Hudson Kam, C.L. (2018). Mimicking infants’ early language experience does not improve adult learning outcomes. Language Learning and Development, 14, 13-41. doi:10.1080/15475441.2017.1324309

Noguchi, M., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2018). The emergence of the allophonic perception of unfamiliar speech sounds: The effects of contextual distribution and phonetic naturalness. Language Learning, 68, 147-176.

Hudson Kam, C.L. (2018). Mimicking infants’ early language experience does not improve adult learning outcomes. Language Learning and Development, 14, 13-41. doi:10.1080/15475441.2017.1324309

Hudson Kam, C.L., & Mathewson, L. (2017). Introducing the Infant Bookreading Database (IBDb). Journal of Child Language, 44, 1289-1308. doi:10.1017/S03050009116000490

Hudson Kam, C. L. (2015). The impact of conditioning variables on the acquisition of variation in adult and child learners. Language, 91,  906-937.

Noguchi, M. & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2015). Categorical perception of post-alveolar sibilants by Taiwan and Beijing Mandarin speakers. Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 published as a special issue of Canadian Acoustics, 43 (3).

Finn, A.S., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2015). Why segmentation matters: experience-driven segmentation errors impair “morpheme” learning. JEP:Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(5), 1560-1569.

Goodrich Smith, W., & Hudson Kam, C.L. (2015). Children’s use of gesture in ambiguous pronoun interpretation. Journal of Child Language, 42, 591-617. doi:10.1017/S0305000915000045