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 …

We review previous research showing that representations formed during language
processing are sometimes just “good enough” for the task at hand and propose the “online …

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 …

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 …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

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

In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are
structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence …

This paper claims that a wide variety of grammatical coding asymmetries can be explained
as adaptations to the language users' needs, in terms of frequency of use, predictability and …

Languages of the world display many structural similarities. We test the hypothesis that
some of these structural properties may arise from biases operating during language …