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Michael Tombolini

Michael Tombolini has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Psycholinguistics & language acquisition; often with Libby Barak, Whitney Poh.

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

OpenAlex · h-index 0 · 2 works · 0 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 3 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10961

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 Affiliations

🎓Montclair State UniversityMontclair · United States2025–2026 · 2 paperscurrent

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPsychology · 2 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 2 worksPsycholinguistics & language acquisition · 2 works

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Child-directed speech · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20251 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. What did you say? Generating Child-Directed Speech Questions to Train LLMs (2025 · 3 citations)
    Language models trained on adult speech addressed to children (Child-Directed Speech, CDS) often perform better than models trained on the same amount of other types of text.
  2. Making Synthetic Questions More Child-Directed: Prompting and Sampling Effects (2026)
    Child-directed speech (CDS) can help small language models learn, but real CDS corpora are small, so researchers try to synthesize CDS-like input.

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 1 citing paper with a page here →.

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