This article introduces the P-chain, an emerging framework for theory in psycholinguistics
that unifies research on comprehension, production and acquisition. The framework …

Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

Large language models have shown promising results in zero-shot settings (Brown et al.,
2020; Radford et al., 2019). For example, they can perform multiple choice tasks simply by …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a
core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of …

We present a general information-theoretic argument that all efficient communication
systems will be ambiguous, assuming that context is informative about meaning. We also …

This paper identifies several serious problems with the widespread use of ANOVAs for the
analysis of categorical outcome variables such as forced-choice variables, question-answer …

Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in
the study of language, Zipf's 75-y-old theory that word length is primarily determined by …

There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at
many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of …