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A verb-frame frequency account of constraints on long-distance dependencies in English
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In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
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Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order
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In: Prof. Levy (2022)
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Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction
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In: Prof. Gibson (2022)
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Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
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Word Order Predicts Cross‐Linguistic Differences in the Production of Redundant Color and Number Modifiers
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In: MIT web domain (2021)
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Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms
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In: PMC (2021)
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© 2019 Languages vary in their number of color terms. A widely accepted theory proposes that languages evolve, acquiring color terms in a stereotyped sequence. This theory, by Berlin and Kay (BK), is supported by analyzing best exemplars (“focal colors”) of basic color terms in the World Color Survey (WCS) of 110 languages. But the instructions of the WCS were complex and the color chips confounded hue and saturation, which likely impacted focal-color selection. In addition, it is now known that even so-called early-stage languages nonetheless have a complete representation of color distributed across the population. These facts undermine the BK theory. Here we revisit the evolution of color terms using original color-naming data obtained with simple instructions in Tsimane’, an Amazonian culture that has limited contact with industrialized society. We also collected data in Bolivian-Spanish speakers and English speakers. We discovered that information theory analysis of color-naming data was not influenced by color-chip saturation, which motivated a new analysis of the WCS data. Embedded within a universal pattern in which warm colors (reds, oranges) are always communicated more efficiently than cool colors (blues, greens), as languages increase in overall communicative efficiency about color, some colors undergo greater increases in communication efficiency compared to others. Communication efficiency increases first for yellow, then brown, then purple. The present analyses and results provide a new framework for understanding the evolution of color terms: what varies among cultures is not whether colors are seen differently, but the extent to which color is useful. ; National Science Foundation (U.S.). Linguistics Program (Award 1534318)
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The Natural Stories corpus: a reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
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In: Springer Netherlands (2020)
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How Efficiency Shapes Human Language ; How Efficiency Shapes Human Language, TICS 2019
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In: Prof. Levy via Courtney Crummett (2019)
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Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment
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In: PMC (2019)
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Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message
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In: MIT Press (2019)
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Word Forms Are Structured for Efficient Use
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2018)
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Color naming across languages reflects color use
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In: National Academy of Sciences (2018)
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Tracking Colisteners’ Knowledge States During Language Comprehension
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2018)
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SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments: Online Appendices
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In: Language (2018)
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Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2017)
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A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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Wordform Similarity Increases With Semantic Similarity: An Analysis of 100 Languages
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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Processing temporal presuppositions: an event-related potential study
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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Don’t Underestimate the Benefits of Being Misunderstood
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In: Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett (2016)
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