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

Corpus linguistics is one of the fastest‐growing methodologies in contemporary linguistics.
In a conversational format, this article answers a few questions that corpus linguists regularly …

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

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 …

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 …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

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 …

A principle of efficient language production based on information theoretic considerations is
proposed: Uniform Information Density predicts that language production is affected by a …

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual
predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their …