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 …

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 …

Beauty is subjective, and as such it, of course, cannot be defined in absolute terms. But we
all know or feel when something is beautiful to us personally. And in such instances …

The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical
analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic …

Languages vary considerably in syntactic structure. About 40% of the world's languages
have subject–verb–object order, and about 40% have subject–object–verb order. Extensive …

Experimental work in the field of language evolution has shown that novel signal systems
become more structured over time. In a recent paper, Kirby, Tamariz, Cornish, and Smith …

For a long time, translation researchers, particularly those working in corpus-based
translation studies, have held the presumption that translated texts tend to be simpler in …

Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a
language. Cross‐linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be largely predictable …

Memory limitations are known to constrain language comprehension and production, and
have been argued to account for crosslinguistic word order regularities. However, a …

As described in the proverb “birds of a feather flock together”, the term homophily narrates
the principle that stronger spatial interactions tend to be formed among locations with similar …