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Edward Gibson
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 201
Citations - 14536
Edward Gibson is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Syntax. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 182 publications receiving 12826 citations. Previous affiliations of Edward Gibson include University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies
TL;DR: The SPLT is shown to explain a wide range of processing complexity phenomena not previously accounted for under a single theory, including the lower complexity of subject-extraction relative clauses compared to object-extracted relative clauses.
The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity.
TL;DR: The dependency locality theory (DLT) as discussed by the authors ) is a theory of resource use in sentence comprehension, and it has been used to find neural correlates of the DLT in the brain.
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The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty
TL;DR: The authors show that the P600 component in Event Related Potential research has been associated with syntactic reanalysis processes, and that the effect of difficult syntactic integration in grammatical sentences is not restricted to reanalysis, but reflects difficulty with syntactical integration processes in general.
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Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study
TL;DR: The results argue against the language-specificity of the P600 and suggest that language and music can be studied in parallel to address questions of neural specificity in cognitive processing.
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Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication
TL;DR: It is shown across 10 languages that average information content is a much better predictor of word length than frequency, which indicates that human lexicons are efficiently structured for communication by taking into account interword statistical dependencies.