Weijie Xu

Is There a Predictability Hierarchy in Reference Resolution?

2021 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)

The concept of accessibility has often been evoked to explain reference resolution. According to the Givenness Hierarchy theory, a referent's accessibility in the mental state of a comprehender is encoded in the form of the …

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 …