🧑‍🔬 Gregory Scontras

Affiliations

🎓University of California, IrvineIrvine · United States2017–2026 · 54 paperscurrent🎓Harvard UniversityCambridge · United States2011–2015 · 11 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2014–2021 · 6 papers

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Topics

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Works by year

2020s

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks (2020 · 14 citations)
   The paper asks what fixes the order of prenominal adjectives in English, as in "big blue box". It implements four efficiency-based predictors: subjectivity, from crowd ratings of 398 adjectives; information locality; integration cost; and a new predictor, information gain. Each predictor scores an adjective pair, and…
2. A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework (2021 · 8 citations)
   A tutorial and critical survey of Rational Speech Act (RSA) models. It derives the vanilla model (literal listener L0, speaker S1 with rationality α and utterance cost, pragmatic listener L1) and shows that S1's choice factorises into truth, informativity and cost, read as Gricean Quality, Quantity and Manner. It…

Also in our library

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Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Michael Franke
• Richard Futrell

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