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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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© 2021 Cognitive Science Society, Inc When asked to identify objects having unique shapes and colors among other objects, English speakers often produce redundant color modifiers (“the red circle”) while Spanish speakers produce them less often (“el circulo (rojo)”). This cross-linguistic difference has been attributed to a difference in word order between the two languages, under the incremental efficiency hypothesis (Rubio-Fernández, Mollica, & Jara-Ettinger, 2020). However, previous studies leave open the possibility that broad language differences between English and Spanish may explain this cross-linguistic difference such that English speakers may generally produce more modifiers than Spanish speakers, including redundant ones, irrespective of word order. Here, we test the incremental efficiency hypothesis in a language production task crossing language (English, Spanish) with modifier type (color, number). Critically, number words occur on the same side of the noun in both English and Spanish. If broad language differences are responsible for the higher rate of color word production in English compared to Spanish, then the same effect should hold for number words. In contrast, the incremental efficiency hypothesis predicts an interaction between language and modifier type, due to different ordering for color words but identical ordering for number words. Our pre-registered analyses offer strong support for the incremental efficiency hypothesis, demonstrating how seemingly small differences in language can cause us to describe the world in surprisingly different ways.
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URL: https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138255.2
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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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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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