Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Formal and functional theories of language seem disparate, because formal theories answer
the question of what a language is, while functional theories answer the question of what …

Functionalist accounts of language suggest that forms are paired with meanings in ways that
support efficient communication. Previous work on grammatical marking suggests that word …

Human languages evolve to make communication more efficient. But efficiency creates trade-
offs: what is efficient for speakers is not always efficient for comprehenders. How do …

Over the past 10 years, Cognitive Linguistics has taken a quantitative turn. Yet, concerns
have been raised that this preoccupation with quantification and modelling may not bring us …

We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP
and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical …

We present a quantitative study of the linguistic and social factors conditioning the use of
grammatical gender with reference to women, focusing on variation in the debates of the …

Highlights•The stimuli in most priming studies must be learned.•Because cultural and
learning systems are dynamic, learned priming effects are unstable in both individuals and …

Linguistic category learning has been shown to be highly sensitive to linear order, and
depending on the task, differentially sensitive to the information provided by preceding …

It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become
morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language …