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Linguistic correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis
Traditionally, many researchers have supported a uniformitarian view whereby all languages are of roughly equal complexity, facilitated …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Sergey Gaponov, Jana Reifegerste, Tessa Yuditha, Tatiana Tatarinova, Ljiljana Progovac, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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More complex societies have more complex kinship lexicons
Increasing evidence suggests that language complexity is sensitive to sociopolitical factors.While most quantitative research has …
Sihan Chen, David Gil, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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The absence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity
The hypothesis that all languages are equally complex often invokes a trade-off principle, according to which if a language is more …
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Sihan Chen, David Gil
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Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin Chinese
Previous work has shown that English native speakers interpret sentences as predicted by a noisy-channel model: They integrate both the …
Meilin Zhan, Sihan Chen, Roger Levy, Jiayi Lu, Edward Gibson
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An information-theoretic approach to the typology of spatial demonstratives
We explore systems of spatial deictic words (such as ‘here’ and ‘there’) from the perspective of communicative efficiency using …
Sihan Chen, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald
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The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
The process of sentence comprehension must allow for the possibility of noise in the input, e.g., from speaker error, listener …
Sihan Chen, Sarah Nathaniel, Rachel Ryskin, Edward Gibson
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Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations
We test the hypothesis that a specific anatomical feature, the dental malocclusion associated with reduced dental wear, causes …
Caleb Everett, Sihan Chen
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Speech adapts to differences in dentition within and across populations
Effect of intervertebral disc degeneration on mechanical and electric signals at the interface between disc and vertebra
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is significantly correlated with the changes in structure and material properties of adjacent …
Qiaoqiao Zhu, Xin Gao, Sihan Chen, Weiyong Gu, Mark D Brown
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Effect of intervertebral disc degeneration on mechanical and electric signals at the interface between disc and vertebra