Edward Gibson

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• The Natural Stories corpus: A reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
• Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms
• Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order
• Lossy-Context Surprisal: An information-theoretic model of memory effects in sentence processing
• How efficiency shapes human language
• Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
• Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment
• The Natural Stories Corpus
• Color naming across languages reflects color use
• Don't underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood
• Generalizing dependency distance
• A corpus investigation of syntactic embedding in Pirahã
• A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production
• L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension: Response to Cunnings (2016)
• Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency
• Cross-linguistic gestures reflect typological universals: A subject-initial, verb-final bias in speakers of diverse languages
• Experiments with generative models for dependency tree linearization
• Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages
• Quantifying word order freedom in dependency corpora
• Response to Liu, Xu, and Liang (2015) and Ferrer-i-Cancho and Gómez-Rodrǵuez (2015) on dependency length minimization