Edward Gibson

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 …

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 …