Models of language production must account for how speakers select referential
expressions, a process that is complicated by the range of options available to speakers (eg …

The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information
about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes …

Child‐directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two
questions:(1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word …

One important feature of linguistic communication is that some parts of utterances are more
prominent than others. Prominence as a perceptual feature of spoken language is …

We ask whether speakers can adapt their productions when feedback from their
interlocutors suggests that previous productions were perceptually confusable. To address …

Grammatical encoding is one of the earliest stages in linguistic encoding. One broadly
accepted view holds that grammatical encoding is primarily or exclusively affected by …

The voice is the most direct link we have to others' minds, allowing us to communicate using
a rich variety of speech cues [1, 2]. This link is particularly critical early in life as parents draw …

Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

Experimental pragmatics has gained many insights from understanding how people use
weak scalar terms (like some) to infer that a stronger alternative (like all) is false. Early …

The usage-based framework considers linguistic structure to be emergent from how human
languages are used, and shaped by domain-general cognitive processes. This paper …