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 …

Color adjectives tend to be used redundantly in referential communication. I propose that
redundant color adjectives (RCAs) are often intended to exploit a color contrast in the visual …

Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

A foundational assumption of human communication is that speakers should say as much as
necessary, but no more. Yet, people routinely produce redundant adjectives and their …

A pragmatic account of referential communication is developed which presents an
alternative to traditional Gricean accounts by focusing on cooperativeness and efficiency …

Human social intelligence relies on our ability to infer other people's mental states such as
their beliefs, desires, and intentions. While people are proficient at mental state inference …

Recent debates over adults' theory of mind use have been fueled by surprising failures of
perspective‐taking in communication, suggesting that perspective‐taking may be relatively …

Recent advances in probabilistic pragmatics have achieved considerable success in
modeling speakers' and listeners' pragmatic reasoning as probabilistic inference. However …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

Processing language requires integrating information from multiple sources, including
context, world knowledge, and the linguistic signal itself. How is this information integrated …