Richard Futrell

The Natural Stories Corpus

2018

It is now a common practice to compare models of human language processing by comparing how well they predict behavioral and neural measures of processing difficulty, such as reading times, on corpora of rich naturalistic …

A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

The effect of syntactic priming exhibits three well-documented empirical properties: the lexical boost, the inverse frequency effect, and the asymmetrical decay. We aim to show how these three empirical phenomena can be reconciled in a …

Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

2015 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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 that many striking universals of cross-linguistic variation follow …

Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state

2019

Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita, Peng Qian, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger Levy. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and …