3 papers
cs.CL2025
Linguistic Structure from a Bottleneck on Sequential Information Processing
Richard Futrell, Michael Hahn
Human language has a distinct systematic structure, where utterances break into individually meaningful words which are combined to form phrases. We show that natural-language-like…
cs.CL2025
SPACER: A Parallel Dataset of Speech Production And Comprehension of Error Repairs
Shiva Upadhye, Jiaxuan Li, Richard Futrell
Speech errors are a natural part of communication, yet they rarely lead to complete communicative failure because both speakers and comprehenders can detect and correct errors. Alt…
cs.CL2024
Decomposition of surprisal: Unified computational model of ERP components in language processing
Jiaxuan Li, Richard Futrell
The functional interpretation of language-related ERP components has been a central debate in psycholinguistics for decades. We advance an information-theoretic model of human lang…