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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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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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How do we decide what to say to ensure our meanings will be understood? The Rational Speech Act model (RSA; Frank & Goodman, 2012 ) asserts that speakers plan what to say by comparing the informativity of words in a particular context. We present the first example of an RSA model of sentence-level (who-did-what-to-whom) meanings. In these contexts, the set of possible messages must be abstracted from entities in common ground (people and objects) to possible events (Jane eats the apple, Marco peels the banana), with each word contributing unique semantic content. How do speakers accomplish the transformation from context to compositional, informative messages? In a communication game, participants described transitive events (e.g., Jane pets the dog), with only two words, in contexts where two words either were or were not enough to uniquely identify an event. Adults chose utterances matching the predictions of the RSA even when there was no possible fully “successful” utterance. Thus we show that adults’ communicative behavior can be described by a model that accommodates informativity in context, beyond the set of possible entities in common ground. This study provides the first evidence that adults’ language production is affected, at the level of argument structure, by the graded informativity of possible utterances in context, and suggests that full-blown natural speech may result from speakers who model and adapt to the listener’s needs.
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128658
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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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