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 …

Dependency distance, measured by the linear distance between two syntactically related
words in a sentence, is generally held as an important index of memory burden and an …

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 …

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

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

This paper introduces an extension of distinctive-collocate analysis that takes into account
grammatical structure and is specifically geared to investigating pairs of semantically similar …

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

It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are
intimately related. This relationship is frequently suggested to derive from a language …

Variations in postverbal constituent ordering have been attributed to both grammatical
complexity (heaviness) and discourse status (newness), although few studies compare the …

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, ie the tendency to
reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two …