Recent work in psychology and linguistics has shown that frequency of occurrence is an
important determinant of language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change. This …

When we consider the topic of “language evolution: cognitive and cultural factors”, one of the
first questions that come to mind is what is meant by “evolution”: language change over the …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

We present a general information-theoretic argument that all efficient communication
systems will be ambiguous, assuming that context is informative about meaning. We also …

A principle of efficient language production based on information theoretic considerations is
proposed: Uniform Information Density predicts that language production is affected by a …

If language users are rational, they might choose to structure their utterances so as to
optimize communicative properties. In particular, information-theoretic and psycholinguistic …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

Bresnan et al.(2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English
speakers' syntactic choices with 'give'-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that …

The labelsemiotic grammar'captures a fundamental property of the grammars of human
languages: not only is language a semiotic system in the familiar Saussurean sense, but its …