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Publications

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Refereed journal articles

• Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Nakisa, R. & Redington, M. (2003). Fast, Frugal and Rational: How Rational Norms Explain Behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90 (1), 63-86.
  
  
• Redington, M., Chater, N. & Finch, S. (1998). Distributional information: A powerful cue for acquiring syntactic categories. Cognitive Science, 22, 425-469.
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• Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1998). Connectionist and statistical approaches to language acquisition: A distributional perspective. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 129-191.
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• Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1997). Probabilistic and distributional approaches to language acquisition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1 (7), 273-281.
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• Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1996). Transfer in artificial grammar learning: A reevaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 123-138.
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Book chapters

• Redington, M. & Chater, N. (2002). Knowledge Representation and Transfer in Artificial Grammar Learning. In R. French and A. Cleeremans (Eds.), Implicit Learning and Consciousness (pp. 121-143). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.
  
  
• Finch, S. P., Chater, N. & Redington, M. (1995). Acquiring syntactic information from distributional statistics. In Levy, J., Bairaktaris, D., Bullinaria, J. A. and Cairns, P. (Eds.), Connectionist Models of Memory and Language, (pp. 229-242). London: UCL Press.
  
  
• Redington, M. & Chater, N. (1998). Connectionist and statistical approaches to language acquisition: A distributional perspective. In Plunkett, K. (Ed.), Language Acquisition and Connectionism, (pp. 121-191). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press. (This book is a reprint of a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes, which forms issues 2/3 of volume 13 [1998]).
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Commentaries

• Redington, M. (2002). A generalisation too far. Commentary on Perruchet & Vintner. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25 (3), 351-352.
  
  
• Redington, M. (2000). Not evidence for separable controlled and automatic influences in artificial grammar learning. Commentary on Higham, Vokey and Pritchard. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 129, 471-475.
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• Chater, N. & Redington, M. (1999). Connectionism, theories of learning, and syntax acquisition: where do we stand? Journal of Child Language, 26, 226-232.
  

Refereed conference proceedings

• Thomas, M. S. C. & Redington, M. (2004). Modelling atypical syntax processing. In W. Sakas (Ed.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition at 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 August 2004. (pp. 85-92).
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• Redington, M. & Ronald, E. (1999). The development of explicit rule-learning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
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• Chater, N., Redington, M., Nakisa, R. & Oaksford, M. (1997). Rationality the fast and frugal way. In M. G. Shafto and P. Langley (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 96-101). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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• Redington, M., Friend, M. & Chater, N. (1996). Confidence judgements, performance, and practice, in artificial grammar learning. In G. W. Cottrell (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 649-654). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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• Redington, M., Chater, N., Huang, C., Chang, L.-P., Finch, S., & Chen, K. (1995). The universality of simple distributional methods: Identifying syntactic categories in Chinese. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Dublin, 1995.
  
  
• Redington, M., & Chater, N. (1994). The guessing game: A paradigm for artificial grammar learning. In A. Ram and K. Eiselt (Eds.). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 745-749). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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• Redington, F. M., Chater, N. & Finch, S. (1993). Distributional information and the acquisition of linguistic categories: A statistical approach. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 848-853). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Book reviews

• Redington, M. (1996). [Review of the book Neural networks for speech and sequence recognition]. Language and Speech, 39, 393-396.
  
  

Dissertations

• Redington, M. (1996). What is learnt in artificial grammar learning? Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
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• Redington, F. M. (1992). A statistical approach to syntax acquisition. Unpublished masters thesis, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.
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