Faculty Profiles - HASLETT David Andrew | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

David Andrew HASLETT

PhD in Linguistics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024

Research Assistant Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 3469 3128
haslett@ust.hk
Room 3371
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ResearcherID

OJC-7699-2025

Scopus ID

57375630200

Research Interest Publications

Research Interest

Word meaning
Language evolution
Psycholinguistics
Large language models
Explainable AI

Publications

All Years 14 2026 0 2025 4 2024 3 2023 3 2022 3 2021 1

2025 4

How Much Semantic Information is Available in Large Language Model Tokens?

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, v. 13, p. 408-423
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Article

Tokenization changes meaning in large language models: evidence from chinese

Computational Linguistics, v. 51, (3), p. 1-30
Haslett, David Andrew
Article

Human-likeness of LLMs in the Mental Lexicon

CoNLL 2025 - 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference / edited by Boleda Gemma; Roth Michael. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, p. 586-601
Xiao, Bei; Duan, Xufeng; Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Conference paper

Large Language Model Tokens are Psychologically Salient

Paper presented at The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI2025), San Francisco, United States, p. 4819
HASLETT, David Andrew; Chan, Antoni B.; HSIAO, Janet Hui-wen
Conference paper

2024 3

Do large language models resemble humans in language use?

Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, p. 37-56
CAI, Zhengaung; DUAN, Xufeng; HASLETT, David Andrew; WANG, Shuqi; PICKERING, Martin
Article

Systematic mappings of sound to meaning: A theoretical review

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, v. 31, (2), p. 627-648
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Article

Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words

Journal of Memory and Language, v. 138, article number 104537
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Article

2023 3

Similar-Sounding Words Flesh Out Fuzzy Meanings

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v. 152, (8), p. 2359-2368
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Article

Similar-sounding associates mitigate concreteness effects

Paper presented at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP 2023)
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang
Conference paper

The non-arbitrariness of the token: Systematicity in large language models

Paper presented at Protolang 8
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang
Conference paper

2022 3

New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, v. 29, (3), p. 1017-1025
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.
Article

Pressure for and against non-arbitrariness: Evidence from phonesthemes

Paper presented at Joint Conference on Language Evolution 2022
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang
Conference paper

When words impinge: Overlapping sounds and meanings in low-frequency words

Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 28 (AMLaP 28)
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang
Conference paper

2021 1

Form-based semantic shifts: Evidence from novel word learning

Paper presented at The 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang
Conference paper

Article 2

How Much Semantic Information is Available in Large Language Model Tokens?

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, v. 13, p. 408-423
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Tokenization changes meaning in large language models: evidence from chinese

Computational Linguistics, v. 51, (3), p. 1-30
Haslett, David Andrew

Conference paper 2

Human-likeness of LLMs in the Mental Lexicon

CoNLL 2025 - 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference / edited by Boleda Gemma; Roth Michael. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, p. 586-601
Xiao, Bei; Duan, Xufeng; Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Large Language Model Tokens are Psychologically Salient

Paper presented at The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI2025), San Francisco, United States, p. 4819
HASLETT, David Andrew; Chan, Antoni B.; HSIAO, Janet Hui-wen

Article 3

Do large language models resemble humans in language use?

Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, p. 37-56
CAI, Zhengaung; DUAN, Xufeng; HASLETT, David Andrew; WANG, Shuqi; PICKERING, Martin

Systematic mappings of sound to meaning: A theoretical review

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, v. 31, (2), p. 627-648
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words

Journal of Memory and Language, v. 138, article number 104537
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Article 1

Similar-Sounding Words Flesh Out Fuzzy Meanings

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v. 152, (8), p. 2359-2368
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Conference paper 2

Similar-sounding associates mitigate concreteness effects

Paper presented at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP 2023)
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang

The non-arbitrariness of the token: Systematicity in large language models

Paper presented at Protolang 8
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang

Article 1

New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, v. 29, (3), p. 1017-1025
Haslett, David A.; Cai, Zhenguang G.

Conference paper 2

Pressure for and against non-arbitrariness: Evidence from phonesthemes

Paper presented at Joint Conference on Language Evolution 2022
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang

When words impinge: Overlapping sounds and meanings in low-frequency words

Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 28 (AMLaP 28)
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang

Conference paper 1

Form-based semantic shifts: Evidence from novel word learning

Paper presented at The 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Haslett, David Andrew; Cai, Zhenguang

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2022 3

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Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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