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Career

· Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University2016–2017
· BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, Swarthmore College2009–
· Research Scientist, Goodfire
· Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UCSD
· Associate Professor, University of California San Diego

Publications (47)

How Efficiency Shapes Human Language
Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2019
423
cited
Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
348
cited
Color naming across languages reflects color use
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
227
cited
A Noisy-Channel Account of Crosslinguistic Word-Order Variation
Psychology Science · 2013
193
cited
Please Scroll down for Article Language and Cognitive Processes the Need for Quantitative Methods in Syntax and Semantics Research the Need for Quantitative Methods in Syntax and Semantics Research
186
cited
Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference
Semantics and Pragmatics · 2016
162
cited
Nonliteral understanding of number words
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
161
cited
Speaker knowledge influences the comprehension of pragmatic inferences.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition · 2012
156
cited
Formalizing the Pragmatics of Metaphor Understanding
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2014
76
cited
That's what she (could have) said: How alternative utterances affect language use
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2012
71
cited
Systematic Generalization with Edge Transformers
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2021
54
cited
An ERP index of real-time error correction within a noisy-channel framework of human communication
Neuropsychologia · 2020
46
cited
The strategic use of noise in pragmatic reasoning
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2015
44
cited
MIT Open Access Articles A rational inference approach to aphasic language comprehension
2015
33
cited
NON-UNIFORM MIXING OF QUANTUM WALK ON CYCLES
2007
29
cited
Processing temporal presuppositions: an event-related potential study
2016
22
cited
Predicting Reference: What Do Language Models Learn about Discourse Models?
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2020
20
cited
Theory-driven statistical modeling for semantics and pragmatics: A case study on grammatically generated implicature readings
Language · 2020
19
cited
Learning Structured Preferences
2010
18
cited
High-level language brain regions are sensitive to sub-lexical regularities
bioRxiv · 2021
12
cited
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