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Quantitative methods in syntax/ semantics research: A response to Sprouse and Almeida (2012) Edward Gibson a b , Steven T. Piantadosi c & Evelina Fedorenko a a Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA b Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA c Brain and Cognitive Sciences Depar...

In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2015) present a fundamental constraint on language, i.e. a now-or-never bottleneck that arises from our fleeting memory, and explore its implications, e.g., chunk-and-pass processing, outlining a framework that promises to unify different areas of research. Here we explore additional support for this constraint and suggest further connections from q...

In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2016) present a fundamental constraint on language, i.e. a now-or-never bottleneck that arises from our fleeting memory, and explore its implications, e.g., chunk-and-pass processing, outlining a framework that promises to unify different areas of research. Here we explore additional support for this constraint and suggest further connections from q...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...

In the early days of engineering models of language, a popular intuition was that the easiest way to improve performance was to remove linguists. This was not an unreasonable, or even necessarily wrong intuition, and reflected the fixation by linguists of the day on linguistic structures to the exclusion of consideration of statistical dependencies between lexical or phrasal units or the non-ca...

The processing difficulty profile for relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese and Korean represents a challenge for theories of human parsing.We address this challenge using a grammar-based complexitymetric, one that reflects aminimalist analysis of relative clauses for all three languages as well as structure-dependent corpus distributions. Together, these define a comprehender’s degree of uncer...