Publications

What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

Richard Futrell, William Dyer, Greg Scontras
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Universals of word order reflect optimization of grammars for efficient communication

Michael Hahn, Daniel Jurafsky, Richard Futrell
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Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty

Veronica Boyce, Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy
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Lossy-Context Surprisal: An information-theoretic model of memory effects in sentence processing

Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Roger P. Levy
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Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy, Edward Gibson
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Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms

Bevil Conway, Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson
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What syntactic structures block dependencies in RNN language models?

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy, Richard Futrell
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Syntactic dependencies correspond to word pairs with high mutual information

Richard Futrell, Peng Qian, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko, Idan Blank
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Structural supervision improves learning of non-local grammatical dependencies

Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger P. Levy
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Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state

Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita, Peng Qian, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger P. Levy
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Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language

Richard Futrell
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How efficiency shapes human language

Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell, Steven T. Piantadosi, Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Leon Bergen, Roger P. Levy
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Hierarchical representation in neural language models: Suppression and recovery of expectations

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy, Richard Futrell
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Estimating predictive rate--distortion curves using neural variational inference

Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell
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Do RNNs learn human-like abstract word order preferences?

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy
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Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenomenal?

Himanshu Yadav, Samar Husain, Richard Futrell
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What do RNN language models learn about filler--gap dependencies?

Ethan Wilcox, Roger P. Levy, Takashi Morita, Richard Futrell
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The Natural Stories Corpus

Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Harry J. Tily, Idan Blank, Anastasia Vishnevetsky, Steven T. Piantadosi, Evelina Fedorenko
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Mutual information impacts adjective ordering across languages

Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell, Judith Degen, Daniel Jurafsky, Noah Goodman

Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment

Rachel Ryskin, Richard Futrell, Swathi Kiran, Edward Gibson
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An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences

Michael Hahn, Judith Degen, Noah Goodman, Daniel Jurafsky, Richard Futrell
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A statistical comparison of some theories of NP word order

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy, Matthew Dryer
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Noisy-context surprisal as a human sentence processing cost model

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy
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Memory and locality in natural language

Richard Futrell
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Generalizing dependency distance

Richard Futrell, Roger P. Levy, Edward Gibson
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Don't underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood

Edward Gibson, Caitlin Tan, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth, Evelina Fedorenko

Cute little puppies and nice cold beers: An information-theoretic analysis of prenominal adjectives

Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell, Michael Ramscar
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Color naming across languages reflects color use

Edward Gibson, Richard Futrell, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Kyle Mahowald, Leon Bergen, Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam, Mitchell Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi, Bevil R. Conway
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A generative model of phonotactics

Richard Futrell, Adam Albright, Peter Graff, Timothy J. O'Donnell
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A functional theory of gender paradigms

Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell, Michael Ramscar
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Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency

Cory Shain, Marten van Schijndel, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, William Schuler
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L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension: Response to Cunnings (2016)

Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson
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A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

Kyle Mahowald, Ariel James, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson
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A corpus investigation of syntactic embedding in Pirahã

Richard Futrell, Laura Stearns, Daniel L. Everett, Steven T. Piantadosi, Edward Gibson
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Rythm's role in the genitive construction choice in spoken English

Stephanie Shih, Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, Joan Bresnan
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Response to Liu, Xu, and Liang (2015) and Ferrer-i-Cancho and Gómez-Rodrǵuez (2015) on dependency length minimization

Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson
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Quantifying word order freedom in dependency corpora

Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson
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Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson
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Experiments with generative models for dependency tree linearization

Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson
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Cross-linguistic gestures reflect typological universals: A subject-initial, verb-final bias in speakers of diverse languages

Richard Futrell, Tina Hickey, Aldrin Lee, Eunice Lim, Elena Luchkina, Edward Gibson
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The `universal' structure of name grammars and the impact of social engineering on the evolution of natural information systems

Michael Ramscar, Asha Halima Smith, Melody Dye, Richard Futrell, Peter Hendrix, R. Harald Baayen, Rebecca Starr

Processing effects of the expectation of informativity

Richard Futrell
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German grammatical gender as a nominal protection device

Richard Futrell
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