Peer-reviewed articles
Shukla, V., Long, M., Rubio-Fernandez, P. (2022). Childrenâs acquisition of new/given markers in English, Hindi, Mandinka and Spanish: Exploring the effect of optionality during grammaticalization. Glossa Psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011120
Rubio-Fernandez, P., Shukla, V., Bhatia, V., Ben-Ami, S., & Sinha, P. (2022). Head turning is an effective cue for gaze following: Evidence from newly sighted individuals, school children and adults. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108330
Rubio-Fernandez, P., Long, M., Shukla, V., Bhatia, V., & Sinha, P. (2022). Visual perspective taking is not automatic in a simplified Dot task: Evidence from newly sighted children, primary school children and adults. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108256
Shukla V., Long M., Bhatia V. & Rubio-Fernandez P.(2021). Some sentences prime pragmatic reasoning in the verification and evaluation of comparisons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001082
Long M., Shukla V. & Rubio-Fernandez P. (2021). The development of simile comprehension: from similarity to scalar implicature. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13507
Yadav H., Vaidya A., Shukla V. & Husain S. (2020). Word Order Typology Interacts With Linguistic Complexity: A CrossâLinguistic Corpus Study. Cognitive science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12822
Conference Presentations
Attention to illustrations in autistic and non-autistic children following spontaneous parent narratives: An exploratory eye-tracking study. Vishakha Shukla, Angela Xiaoxue, Sudha Arunachalam. Many Paths to Language. October, 2023 (Njimegen, The Netherlands).
Processing load and verb learning in an online study with autistic and non-autistic preschoolers. Vishakha Shukla, Rhiannon Luyster, Sydney Flisser, Sudha Arunachalam. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. June, 2023 (UW Madison).
Parental tuning of narratives directed to autistic and non-autistic children: An exploratory eye-tracking study. Vishakha Shukla, Angela Xiaoxue, Sudha Arunachalam. Meeting on Language in Autism. Mar, 2023 (Durham, USA).
Comprehension of unscripted parent narratives by autistic children. Vishakha Shukla, Angela Xiaoxue He, Sudha Arunachalam. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. June, 2022 (UW Madison).
Eliciting narratives in diferent languages, cultures and platforms: methodological insights. Vrinda Bhatia, Anwesha Mahapatra, Vishakha Shukla and Paula Rubio-Fernandez. MODE: Methods of Online Discourse Elicitation Conference. Nov, 2021 (Virtual).
Childrenâs acquisition of new/given markers in English, Hindi, Mandinka and Spanish. Vishakha Shukla, Madeleine Long, Vrinda Bhatia and Paula Rubio-Fernandez. South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL). Aug, 2021 (Virtual).
Priming pragmatic reasoning in the verification and evaluation of comparisons. Vishakha Shukla, Madeleine Long, Vrinda Bhatia and Paula Rubio-Fernandez. 34th CUNY. Mar, 2021 (Virtual).
Two cross-linguistic studies on the acquisition of definiteness and Theory of Mind. Vishakha Shukla, Madeleine Long, Fatoumata Jallow, Shlomit Ben-Ami, Marta Bialecka-Pikul, Julin Jara-Ettinger Paula Rubio-Fernndez. Meaning in Flux: Connecting development, variation, and change. Oct, 2019 (Yale University).
Perspective taking in newly-sighted kids: Do they orient towards an interlocutors face? Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Vishakha Shukla, Shlomit Ben Ami, Chetan Ralekar, Ashwini Vaidya, Michelle Oraa Ali and Pawan Sinha. 32nd CUNY. Mar, 2019 (University of Colarado).