Here we review the role of brain oscillations in sensory processing. We examine the idea
that neural entrainment of intrinsic oscillations underlies the processing of rhythmic stimuli in …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Today's probabilistic language generators fall short when it comes to producing coherent
and fluent text despite the fact that the underlying models perform well under standard …

It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context-
driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …

Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling
information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste …

We present a general information-theoretic argument that all efficient communication
systems will be ambiguous, assuming that context is informative about meaning. We also …

Language is universal, but it has few indisputably universal characteristics, with cross-
linguistic variation being the norm. For example, languages differ greatly in the number of …

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

We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in
the study of language, Zipf's 75-y-old theory that word length is primarily determined by …