Search Results - "Gibson, Edward"

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

“…Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed…”
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Emotional influences on food choice: Sensory, physiological and psychological pathways by Leigh Gibson, Edward

“…Sensory, physiological and psychological mechanisms are reviewed that underlie emotional influences on food choice. Both moods and emotions are considered…”
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Lossy‐Context Surprisal: An Information‐Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing by Futrell, Richard, Gibson, Edward, Levy, Roger P.

“…A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context…”
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Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication by Piantadosi, Steven T, Tily, Harry, Gibson, Edward

“…We demonstrate a substantial improvement on one of the most celebrated empirical laws in the study of language, Zipf's 75-y-old theory that word length is…”
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Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation by Gibson, Edward, Bergen, Leon, Piantadosi, Steven T.

“…Sentence processing theories typically assume that the input to our language processing mechanisms is an error-free sequence of words. However, this assumption…”
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Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought by Fedorenko, Evelina, Piantadosi, Steven T., Gibson, Edward A. F.

“…Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent…”
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Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction by Abeillé, Anne, Hemforth, Barbara, Winckel, Elodie, Gibson, Edward

“…In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies – termed syntactic islands by Ross (1967) – syntacticians proposed constraints on…”
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Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic Countries by Gibson, Edward L.

“…This article considers the political situation of an authoritarian province in a nationally democratic country. The objective is to uncover strategies that…”
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Color naming across languages reflects color use by Gibson, Edward, Futrell, Richard, Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Mahowald, Kyle, Bergen, Leon, Ratnasingam, Sivalogeswaran, Gibson, Mitchell, Piantadosi, Steven T., Conway, Bevil R.

“…What determines how languages categorize colors? We analyzed results of the World Color Survey (WCS) of 110 languages to show that despite gross differences…”
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The syntactic complexity of Russian relative clauses by Levy, Roger, Fedorenko, Evelina, Gibson, Edward

“…► We study real-time comprehension difficulty in Russian relative clauses. ► Our work helps disentangle predictions of memory- and expectation-based theories…”
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Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range by Pitt, Benjamin, Gibson, Edward, Piantadosi, Steven T.

“…Previous findings suggest that mentally representing exact numbers larger than four depends on a verbal count routine (e.g., “one, two, three . . .”). However,…”
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Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies by Gibson, Edward

“…This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory – the…”
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Color naming in Tsimane’–Spanish bilinguals indicates that differential experience with content domains affects lexical access by Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Roca, Manuel, Gibson, Edward

“…A standard assumption in the bilingual language processing literature is that the ease of access of a word in a language is determined by the speaker’s overall…”
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Front-End Planning for Large and Small Infrastructure Projects: Comparison of Project Definition Rating Index Tools by ElZomor, Mohamed, Burke, Rebekah, Parrish, Kristen, Gibson, G. Edward

“…AbstractDespite the need to reform, maintain, and expand U.S. infrastructure, the construction industry often struggles to deliver infrastructure projects that…”
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Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a new framework for the evolution of color terms by Conway, Bevil R., Ratnasingam, Sivalogeswaran, Jara-Ettinger, Julian, Futrell, Richard, Gibson, Edward

“…•Whether a color chip is chosen as a best exemplar of a color term is influenced by stimulus saturation.•The efficiency with which a color chip is communicated…”
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A Noisy-Channel Account of Crosslinguistic Word-Order Variation by Gibson, Edward, Piantadosi, Steven T., Brink, Kimberly, Bergen, Leon, Lim, Eunice, Saxe, Rebecca

“…The distribution of word orders across languages is highly nonuniform, with subject-verb-object (SVO) and subject-object-verb (SOV) orders being prevalent…”
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Examining the Impact of Rate-of-Return Regulation on Capital Project Planning by Sherman, Rachael, Gibson, G. Edward, Merrow, Edward, Parrish, Kristen

“…AbstractAs the United States’ population grows and power delivery needs continue to expand, utility companies are presented with a unique opportunity to…”
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"Sleepiness" is serious in adolescence: two surveys of 3235 Canadian students by Gibson, Edward S, Powles, A C Peter, Thabane, Lehana, O'Brien, Susan, Molnar, Danielle Sirriani, Trajanovic, Nik, Ogilvie, Robert, Shapiro, Colin, Yan, Mi, Chilcott-Tanser, Lisa

“…Evidence is growing that sleep problems in adolescents are significant impediments to learning and negatively affect behaviour, attainment of social competence…”
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Identifying Team Selection and Alignment Factors by Delivery Method for Transportation Projects by Bingham, Evan, Gibson, G. Edward, El Asmar, Mounir

“…AbstractOne critical antecedent to project success is team alignment. Industry professionals should focus on practices that can improve project team selection,…”
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Number as a cognitive technology: Evidence from Pirahã language and cognition by Frank, Michael C., Everett, Daniel L., Fedorenko, Evelina, Gibson, Edward

“…Does speaking a language without number words change the way speakers of that language perceive exact quantities? The Pirahã are an Amazonian tribe who have…”
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