| 2025 | CogSci | The functional view of intuitive etymological explanations. | Stella Sommer, Sammy Floyd |
| 2023 | ACL | A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models. | Jennifer Hu, Sammy Floyd, Olessia Jouravlev, Evelina Fedorenko, Edward Gibson |
| 2023 | CogSci | The impact of polysemous meanings on bilinguals' representations across languages. | Sammy Floyd, Liam J. Gleason, Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Christine E. Potter |
| 2021 | CogSci | Modeling rules and similarity in colexification. | Sammy Floyd, Kavindya Dalawella, Adele Goldberg, Casey Lew-Williams, Tom Griffiths |
| 2021 | CogSci | Quantifying Lexical Ambiguity in Speech To and From English-Learning Children. | Stephan C. Meylan, Jessica Mankewitz, Sammy Floyd, Hugh Rabagliati, Mahesh Srinivasan |
| 2020 | CogSci | Toddlers assign word labels to multiple polysemous meanings. | Sammy Floyd, Adele E. Goldberg, Casey Lew-Williams |
| 2019 | CogSci | Toddlers recognize multiple polysemous meanings and use them to infer additional meanings. | Sammy Floyd, Adele E. Goldberg, Casey Lew-Williams |
| 2019 | CogSci | Children, more than adults, rely on similarity to access multiple meanings of words. | Sammy Floyd, Casey Lew-Williams, Adele E. Goldberg |
| 2019 | CogSci | Productivity depends on communicative intention and accessibility, not thresholds. | Alexia Hernandez, Sammy Floyd, Adele E. Goldberg |