Rebecca Frost
Researcher (Alumni)
University of Lancaster
A bit about Rebecca Frost
Infants have a remarkable ability to learn language skills from a very early age, even though language learning is a notoriously complex task. This is something I find fascinating, and I am thrilled to be exploring how they do it as part of the LuCiD team. Before joining LuCiD, I completed a PhD in Psychology at Lancaster University, which examined the benefit of sleep for learning different grammatical rules. In the past, I have also collaborated with sleep and language researchers at the University of York.
My Role in LuCiD
I worked as a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, on a project which examines the way in which different distributional cues are combined to help solve different tasks in language learning in 8-to-24-month-old children. My project was particularly interested in how infants learn to identify where one word ends and another begins in speech (speech segmentation), and how infants learn that different words belong to different categories.
I currently work as a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. My research at the MPI continues to explore the way that learners draw on the distribution of information in the world around them, with a view of increasing our understanding of the way that statistical learning influences language acquisition and language processing. Read my MPI profile for more information.
LuCiD publications (43) by Rebecca Frost
Frost, R. L. A., Jessop, A., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A. Pine, J., Rowland, C. & Monaghan, P. (2020). Cognitive Psychology, 120, 101291.
Dunn, K., Frost, R., Monaghan, P. (2019). Poster presented at the Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning conference. San Sebastian.
Cheung, R., Hartley, C., Dunn, K., Frost, R., Monaghan, P. (2019). Talk presented at Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development (LCICD). Lancaster, UK.
Cheung, R., Hartley, C., Dunn, K., Frost, R., & Monaghan, P. (2019). Talk presented at the WILD conference. Potsdam, Germany.
Isbilen, E., Frost, R., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. (2019). Talk presented at Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition conference. Aarhus, Denmark.
Isbilen, E., Frost, R., Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. (2019). Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning conference . San Sebastian.
Frost, R., Isbilen, E., Christiansen, M., Monoghan, P. (2019). Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.
Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Paper presented at the 3rd LuCiD Annual Mini Conference, Lancaster, UK
Trotter, A., Monaghan, P., Frost, R. (2018). Paper presented at 26th Conference on Arcitechtures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.
Frost, R., Rowland, C., Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P. (2018). Paper presented at 26th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.
Monaghan, P., Brand, J., Frost, R. (2018). Paper presented at 26th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLap), Berlin, Germany.
Isbilin, E., Frost, R., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. (2018). Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1856-1861. Cognitive Science Society.
Trotter, A. S., Monaghan, P., & Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Bilbao, Spain.
Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Talk presented at the 3rd LuCiD Annual Mini Conference, Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2017). Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M. (2016). Poster presented at Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R., Monaghan, P.. Christiansen, M. (2016). Poster presented at 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Bilbao, Spain.
Durrant, S., Peter, M., Bidgood, A., Monaghan, P., Frost, R., Bannard, C., Kidd, E., & Rowland, C. (2017). Paper presented at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Holland.
Trotter, A. S., Monaghan, P., & Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Poster presented at the 23rd annual AMLaP Conference, Lancaster, UK.
Trotter, A. S., Monaghan, P., & Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Talk presented at Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Leuven, Belgium.
Trotter, A. S., Monaghan, P., & Frost, R. L. A. (2017). Talk presented at the 3rd LuCiD Conference, Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000683
Trotter, A. S., Frost, L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerp, BE.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, UK.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the 22nd annual AMLaP Conference, Bilbao, ES.
Trotter, A. S., Frost. R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Paper presented at the 2nd LuCiD mini-conference, Manchester, UK.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the Lancaster University Faculty of Sciene and Technology Chistmas Conderece, Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A., Gomez, R., Visagie, K., Christiansen, M. H., & Monaghan, P (2016). Poster presented at the 1st Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Lancaster, UK.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the 22nd annual AMLaP Conference. Bilbao, Spain.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, R. L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar. Lancaster, UK.
Trotter, A. S., Frost, L. A., & Monaghan, P. (2016). Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of Psycholinguistics in Flanders. Antwerp: Belgium.
Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2017). Sleep-Driven Computations in Speech Processing. PLoS ONE 12(1):e0169538.
Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Tatsumi, T. (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000325
Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Sleep-driven computations in speech processing. Poster presented at the New Directions in Implicit and Explicit Language Learning symposium, Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation of non-adjacent dependencies. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, BCBL, San Sebastian, Spain.
Frost, R. L. A. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Talk presented at the First Annual LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference. Liverpool, UK.
Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language development? Poster presented at the XX Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Frost, R. L. A., Peter, M., Durrant, S., Bidgood, A., Rowland, C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do infants use nonadjacent dependencies during language acquisition? Poster to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar. Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A, Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. ( (2016). High Frequency Words can Assist Language Acquisition Talk to be presented at the Fifth Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster, UK.
Frost, R. L. A, Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). Using Statistics to Learn Words and Grammatical Categories: How High Frequency Words Assist Language Acquisition. Poster to be presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Frost, R. L. A., Monaghan, P., & Christiansen, M. H. (2016). How do high frequency words help language acquisition? Poster session presented at the Experimental Psychology Society's London Meeting, University College London, UK.
Frost, R.L.A. & Monaghan, P. (2016). Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation of non-adjacent dependencies from continuous speech. Cognition, 147, 70-74.
Frost, R., Twomey, K. E., Taylor, G., Westermann, G. and Monaghan P. (2015). Word for word. Nursery World Magazine, 27 July, 21-23