Open Mind Volume 6: September

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This Better Be Interesting: A Speaker’s Decision to Speak Cues Listeners to Expect Informative Content

Rohde, Hannah; Hoek, Jet; Keshev, Maayan; Franke, Michael

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00058 pmid:36439071

In anticipating upcoming content, comprehenders are known to rely on real-world knowledge. This knowledge can be deployed directly in favor of upcoming content about typical situations (implying a transparent mapping between the world and what speakers say about the world). Such knowledge can...

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Neural Networks Track the Logical Complexity of Boolean Concepts

Carcassi, Fausto; Szymanik, Jakub

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00059 pmid:36439063

The language of thought hypothesis and connectionism provide two main accounts of category acquisition in the cognitive sciences. However, it is unclear to what extent their predictions agree. In this article, we tackle this problem by comparing the two accounts with respect to a common set of...

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A Reappraisal of Dependency Length Minimization as a Linguistic Universal

Yadav, Himanshu; Mittal, Shubham; Husain, Samar

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00060 pmid:36439069

Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies has been to count the number of words between syntactically related words. However,...

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A Pragmatic Account of the Weak Evidence Effect

Barnett, Samuel A.; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Hawkins, Robert D.

2022 Open Mind

doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00061 pmid:36439072

Language is not only used to transmit neutral information; we often seek to persuade by arguing in favor of a particular view. Persuasion raises a number of challenges for classical accounts of belief updating, as information cannot be taken at face value. How should listeners account for a...

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