How Efficiency Shapes Human Language

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 efficiency in usage: what otherwise puzzling features of language find explanation in formal accounts of how language might be o...

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Main Authors: Gibson, Edward A, Futrell, Richard, Piantadosi, Steven, Dautriche, Isabelle, Mahowald, Kyle, Bergen, Leon, Levy, Roger Philip, Levy, Roger P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Center for Open Science 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122958