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

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

Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous
progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …

When we interact with one another, we tend to align our behaviors, including the way we
talk. Psycholinguistic work has conceptualized alignment as the result of automatic cognitive …

All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book
shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making …

In a series of seven studies, this paper examines acoustic characteristics of the spontaneous
speech production of the English dative alternation (gave the book to the boy/the boy the …

A well-known effect in speech production is that more predictable linguistic constructions
tend to be reduced. Recent work has interpreted this effect in an information-theoretic …

Much of contemporary mainstream formal grammar theory is unable to provide analyses for
language as it occurs in actual spoken interaction. Its analyses are developed for a cleaned …

Upon hearing a disfluent referring expression, listeners expect the speaker to refer to an
object that is previously unmentioned, an object that does not have a straightforward label …

We examine a case of word order variation where speakers choose between two near-
synonymous constructions partly on the basis of the processing complexity of the …