In this paper, we examine the relationship between grammatical and discourse-related
domains of linguistic organization in heritage speakers by comparing their knowledge of …

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 …

About half of the discourse relations annotated in Penn Discourse Treebank (Prasad et al.,
2008) are not explicitly marked using a discourse connective. But we do not have extensive …

This study examined word order preferences as a function of phrasal length in Basque.
Basque is an OV language with flexible sentence word order and rich verb agreement …

The present paper presents a multimodel inference approach to linguistic variation,
expanding on prior work by Kuperman and Bresnan (2012). We argue that corpus data often …

Interference effects from semantically similar items are well-known in studies of single word
production, where the presence of semantically similar distractor words slows picture …

A recent cross-linguistic survey suggests redundant marking of the same meaning by
multiple morphological markers to be more widely attested than commonly believed. While …

Recent proposals hold that the cognitive systems underlying language production exhibit
computational properties that facilitate communicative efficiency, ie, an efficient trade-off …

This study explores information structure (IS) within the framework of corpus linguistics and
functional linguistics. As a case study, it investigates IS phenomena in spoken Japanese …

Abstract The Smooth Signal Redundancy Hypothesis explains variations in syllable length
as a means to more uniformly distribute information throughout the speech signal. The …