Functionalist typologists have long argued that pressures associated with language usage
influence the distribution of grammatical properties across the world's languages …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

We examine how the relationship between animacy and syntactic structure might be
explained in terms of an influence of animacy on the psychological processes that underlie …

This paper presents three experiments that investigate the relationship between gradient
and binary judgments of grammaticality. In the first two experiments, two different groups of …

High above the clouds of California, I feel an acute sense of loss. Yesterday I walked
through golden hills. The last five years have been full of experiences that I wouldn't have …

Theories of how people construct linguistic form during production are largely based on
English and closely related languages. We report three experiments that used a structural …

Speakers can produce utterances with more or less articulatory detail or even completely
omit certain words, while still conveying the same message. Similar reduction exists at …

Two experiments using a sentence recall task tested the effect of animacy on syntactic
processing in Japanese sentence production. Experiment 1 and 2 showed that when …

Languages differ from one another and must therefore be learned. Processing biases in
word order can also differ across languages. For example, heavy noun phrases tend to be …

The mechanisms underlying language production are often assumed to be universal, and
hence not contingent on a speaker's language. This assumption is problematic for at least …