Leon Bergen

2.6k citations
25 papers · 1.2k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 15

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Leon Bergen

23 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

How Efficiency Shapes Human Language 2019 · 250 citations
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Leon Bergen
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  • Language and Linguistics 362
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 428
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 386
  • Cultural Studies 207
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 465
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Leon Bergen, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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How Efficiency Shapes Human Language
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2019250
2 2013235
3 2017139
4 2013127
5 201485
6 201682
7 201278
8
That's what she (could have) said: How alternative utterances affect language use
201238
9 201934
10
Formalizing the Pragmatics of Metaphor Understanding
201431
11 202129
12 201527
13 201521
14 202015
15 201615
16 20209
17 20248
18
Verb omission errors: Evidence of rational processing of noisy language inputs
20126
19
Learning Structured Preferences
20105
20 20235

About Leon Bergen

Leon Bergen is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology, having authored 25 papers that have together received 1.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (8 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers), Language and cultural evolution (5 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (4 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (4 papers) and Topic Modeling (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Language and Linguistics (362 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (428 citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (386 citations), Cultural Studies (207 citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (465 citations). Leon Bergen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Edward Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi, Noah D. Goodman, Roger Lévy, Kyle Mahowald, Richard Futrell, Isabelle Dautriche, Daniel Grodner, Justine Kao and Rebecca Saxe. Their work appears in journals such as Cognitive Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Vision and Language.

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