Publications

Sihan Chen (2026). Communicative efficiency and institutional pressure on language. PhD thesis, August 2026.

Michael Ramscar, Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald (2026). Cross-cultural structures of personal name systems reflect general communicative principles. in Nature Communications.

Sihan Chen, Lia Washington, Edward Gibson (2025). The Influence of Prior Semantic Knowledge in Noisy Channel Interpretation. in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson, Michael Ramscar (2024). Availability, informatively and burstiness: Why average corpus measures are an inaccurate guide to surprisal in language. in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Sihan Chen, David Gil, Sergey Gaponov, Jana Reifegerste, Tessa Yuditha, Tatiana Tatarinova, Ljiljana Progovac, Antonio Benítez-Burraco (2024). Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis. in PLoS ONE.

Sihan Chen, David Gil, Antonio Benítez-Burraco (2024). More complex societies have more complex kinship lexicons. in PsyArxiv.

Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Sihan Chen, David Gil (2024). The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity. in Frontiers in Language Sciences.

Meilin Zhan, Sihan Chen, Roger Levy, Jiayi Lu, Edward Gibson (2023). Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese. in Cognitive Science 47(12): e13383 (2023).

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Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald (2023). An information-theoretic approach to the typology of spatial demonstratives. in Cognition 240: 105505 (2023).

Sihan Chen, Sarah Nathaniel, Rachel Ryskin, Edward Gibson (2023). The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension. Cognition.

Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Candy Cachuana, Sihan Chen, David Gil, Ljiljana Progovac, Jana Reifegeste, Tatiana Tatarinova (2022). Cognitive and Genetic Correlates of a Single Macro-Parameter of Crosslinguistic Variations. in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution 2022.

Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald (2022). An information-theoretic approach to the typology of spatial demonstratives. in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP.

Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald (2022). An information-theoretic approach to the typology of spatial demonstratives. in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Caleb Everett, Sihan Chen (2021). Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations. https://news.miami.edu/stories/2021/01/scholars-link-diet,-dentition,-and-linguistics.html.

Qiaoqiao Zhu, Xin Gao, Sihan Chen, Weiyong Gu, Mark D Brown (2020). Effect of intervertebral disc degeneration on mechanical and electric signals at the interface between disc and vertebra. in Journal of Biomechanics 104: 109756 (2020).

Sihan Chen, Caleb Everett (2020). Did post-neolithic changes in bite configuration impact speech? A new approach to the question. in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Evolution of Language.