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

We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in
the study of language, Zipf's 75-y-old theory that word length is primarily determined by …

The role of interference as a primary determinant of forgetting in memory has long been
accepted, however its role as a contributor to poor comprehension is just beginning to be …

Scalar inferences are commonly generated when a speaker uses a weaker expression
rather than a stronger alternative, eg, John ate some of the apples implies that he did not eat …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

In this paper, we evaluate several theories of how syntactic/semantic structure influences the
placement of intonational boundaries in language production (Cooper & Paccia-Cooper …

Scalar implicatures are inferences that arise when a weak expression is used instead of a
stronger alternative. For example, when a speaker says,“Some of the children are in the …

This article reviews some cases in which the collaboration of theoretical pragmaticians and
psychologists of language has been most fruitful for all parties. Linguists have benefited from …

Scalar implicatures often incur a processing cost in sentence comprehension tasks. We
used a novel mouse-tracking technique in a sentence verification paradigm to test different …

This paper presents a study investigating whether and how different kinds of knowledge
affect the detection of plausibility and possibility violations. Readers' eye-movements were …