This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in
children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any …

The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the
theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought …

Natural language is characterized by compositionality: the meaning of a complex expression
is constructed from the meanings of its constituent parts. To facilitate the evaluation of the …

Transformer-based language models have taken the NLP world by storm. However, their
potential for addressing important questions in language acquisition research has been …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

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 …

Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

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

Many explanations of the difficulties associated with interpreting object relative clauses
appeal to the demands that object relatives make on working memory. MacDonald and …