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Albertans preparing to vote in October’s provincial referendum are being encouraged to read the questions ahead of time, after academics identified several examples of wording that can make voters sto...

Though predictability has been found to play an important role in reduction processes in speech, its role in conditioning co-speech gestures has not been explored. Co-speech gestures are known to be c...

In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural ...