How efficiency shapes human language

E Gibson, R Futrell, SP Piantadosi, I Dautriche… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

The impact of positional encoding on length generalization in transformers

A Kazemnejad, I Padhi… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Length generalization, the ability to generalize from small training context sizes to larger
ones, is a critical challenge in the development of Transformer-based language models …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

The neural architecture of language

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute, C Kauf… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - JSTOR
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

Understanding heritage languages

M Polinsky, G Scontras - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2020 - cambridge.org
With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

Automated text analysis for consumer research

A Humphreys, RJH Wang - Journal of Consumer Research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The amount of digital text available for analysis by consumer researchers has risen
dramatically. Consumer discussions on the internet, product reviews, and digital archives of …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
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 resource-rational model of human processing of recursive linguistic structure

M Hahn, R Futrell, R Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
A major goal of psycholinguistic theory is to account for the cognitive constraints limiting the
speed and ease of language comprehension and production. Wide-ranging evidence …

An integrated theory of language production and comprehension

MJ Pickering, S Garrod - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …