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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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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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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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Zipf famously stated that, if natural language lexicons are structured for efficient communication, the words that are used the most frequently should require the least effort. This observation explains the famous finding that the most frequent words in a language tend to be short. A related prediction is that, even within words of the same length, the most frequent word forms should be the ones that are easiest to produce and understand. Using orthographics as a proxy for phonetics, we test this hypothesis using corpora of 96 languages from Wikipedia. We find that, across a variety of languages and language families and controlling for length, the most frequent forms in a language tend to be more orthographically well‐formed and have more orthographic neighbors than less frequent forms. We interpret this result as evidence that lexicons are structured by language usage pressures to facilitate efficient communication. Keywords: Lexicon; Word frequency; Phonology; Communication; Efficiency ; National Science Foundation (Grant ES/N0174041/1)
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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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