2 papers
cs.CL2025
Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing
Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell
How is the limited capacity of working memory efficiently used to support human linguistic behaviors? In this paper, we propose Strategic Resource Allocation (SRA) as an efficiency…
cs.CL2024
A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming
Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell
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…