Here we review the role of brain oscillations in sensory processing. We examine the idea
that neural entrainment of intrinsic oscillations underlies the processing of rhythmic stimuli in …

Functionalist typologists have long argued that pressures associated with language usage
influence the distribution of grammatical properties across the world's languages …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

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

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual
predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their …

ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in
American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency …

This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information
rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …