The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for
the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

Linear mixed-effects models (LMEMs) have become increasingly prominent in
psycholinguistics and related areas. However, many researchers do not seem to appreciate …

Quite surprisingly, exact maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding of neural language
generators frequently leads to low-quality results. Rather, most state-of-the-art results on …

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 …

It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context-
driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …