| 2025 | CogSci | Language production is harder than comprehension for children and language models. | Jennifer Hu, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Steven Y. Feng, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by nave humans and vision-language models. | Veronica Boyce, Ben Prystawski, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | The origins of syntactic category biases: Evidence from early vocabularies of bilingual children. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Michael C. Frank |
| 2025 | CogSci | Generics revisited: Analyzing generalizations in children's books and caregivers' speech. | Sunny Yu, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Siying Zhang, Xuhui Miao, Riley Carlson, Tobias Gerstenberg, David Rose |
| 2024 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China differences in children's reasoning, visual attention, and social cognition. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Ai Nghi Diep, Qi Han, Michael C. Frank, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Characterizing Contextual Variation in Children's Preschool Language Environment Using Naturalistic Egocentric Videos. | Robert Z. Sparks, Bria Long, Grace E. Keene, Malia J. Perez, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Virginia A. Marchman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Using Psychometrics to Improve Cognitive Models-and Theory. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank |
| 2024 | CogSci | Predicting ages of acquisition for children's early vocabulary across 27 languages and dialects. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Georgia-Rengina Loukatou, Mika Braginsky, Jessica Mankewitz, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Cognitive diversity in context: US-China developmental trajectories on 4 tasks in 3-12yos. | Alexandra Carstensen, Anjie Cao, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Di Liu, Yichun Liu, Minh Khong Bui, Jiayi Wang-Zhao, Qi Han, Caren M. Walker, Michael C. Frank |
| 2023 | CogSci | Measuring Children's Early Vocabulary in Low-Resource Languages Using a Swadesh-style Word List. | Alvin Wei Ming Tan, George Kachergis, Virginia A. Marchman, Philip S. Dale, Michael C. Frank |