Richard Futrell

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• An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Morphological Fusion
• Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain
• Simple induction of (deterministic) probabilistic finite-state automata for phonotactics by stochastic gradient descent
• Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT
• An information-theoretic account of semantic inference in word production
• Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies?
• Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal
• Sensitivity as a Complexity Measure for Sequence Classification Tasks
• The Natural Stories corpus: A reading-time corpus of English texts containing rare syntactic constructions
• What's new? A comprehension bias in favor of informativity
• Word order affects the frequency of adjective use across languages
• What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks
• 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
• Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty
• Universals of word order reflect optimization of grammars for efficient communication
• Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenomenal?
• Do RNNs learn human-like abstract word order preferences?
• Estimating predictive rate--distortion curves using neural variational inference
• Hierarchical representation in neural language models: Suppression and recovery of expectations
• How efficiency shapes human language
• Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language
• Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state
• Structural supervision improves learning of non-local grammatical dependencies
• Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information
• What syntactic structures block dependencies in RNN language models?
• A statistical comparison of some theories of NP word order
• An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences
• Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment
• Mutual information impacts adjective ordering across languages
• The Natural Stories Corpus
• What do RNN language models learn about filler--gap dependencies?
• A functional theory of gender paradigms
• A generative model of phonotactics
• Color naming across languages reflects color use
• Cute little puppies and nice cold beers: An information-theoretic analysis of prenominal adjectives
• Don't underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood
• Generalizing dependency distance
• Memory and locality in natural language
• Noisy-context surprisal as a human sentence processing cost model
• 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
• Rythm's role in the genitive construction choice in spoken English
• The `universal' structure of name grammars and the impact of social engineering on the evolution of natural information systems
• Processing effects of the expectation of informativity
• German grammatical gender as a nominal protection device