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# SCiL 2021: all accepted papers

61 papers · the most cited first · [← SCiL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/)

1. **[A Data-driven Approach to Crosslinguistic Structural Biases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.31/)**Alex Kramer, Zoey Liu
2. **[A Minimalist Approach to Facilitatory Effects in Stacked Relative Clauses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.1/)**Aniello De Santo
3. **[A Network Science Approach to Bilingual Code-switching ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.2/)**Qihui Xu, Magdalena Markowska, Martin Chodorow et al.
4. **[A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaslavsky-2021-rate-distortion-view-human-pragmatic/)**Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy*our summary*
5. **[Apparent Communicative Efficiency in the Lexicon is Emergent ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.33/)**Spencer Caplan, Jordan Kodner, Charles Yang
6. **[CCG Supertagging as Top-down Tree Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.34/)**Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, Vivek Srikumar
7. **[Can RNNs trained on harder subject-verb agreement instances still perform well on easier ones?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2021-can-rnns-trained-harder-subject/)**Hritik Bansal, Gantavya Bhatt, Sumeet Agarwal*our summary*
8. **[Capturing gradience in long-distance phonology using probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.4/)**Connor Mayer
9. **[Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.35/)**Tim Hunter, Robert Frank
10. **[Consistent unsupervised estimators for anchored PCFGs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.60/)**Alexander Clark, Nathanaël Fijalkow
11. **[Consonant harmony, disharmony, memory and time scales ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.18/)**Adamantios Gafos
12. **[Deep neural networks easily learn unnatural infixation and reduplication patterns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.51/)**Coleman Haley, Colin Wilson
13. **[Dependency lengths in speech and writing: A cross-linguistic comparison via YouDePP, a pipeline for scraping and parsing YouTube captions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.36/)**Alex Kramer
14. **[Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.5/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith
15. **[Effects of Duration, Locality, and Surprisal in Speech Disfluency Prediction in English Spontaneous Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dammalapati-2021-effects-duration-locality-surprisal-speech/)**Samvit Dammalapati, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sidharth Ranjan et al.*our summary*
16. **[Efficiency of Top-Down Parsing of Recursive Adjunction for Tree Adjoining Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.38/)**Jing Ji
17. **[Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.6/)**Caitlin Smith, Charlie O'Hara, Eric Rosen et al.
18. **[Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.7/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith
19. **[Epistemic Semantics in Guarded String Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.8/)**Eric Hayden Campbell, Mats Rooth
20. **[Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity\ensuremath*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-every-ambiguity-isn-t-syntactic/)**Sherry Yong Chen, Bob van Tiel*our summary*
21. **[Every quantifier isn't the same: Informativity matters for ambiguity resolution in quantifier-negation sentences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.43/)**Noa Attali, Gregory Scontras, Lisa S. Pearl
22. **[Extracting English lexical borrowings from Spanish newswire ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.40/)**Elena Álvarez Mellado
23. **[Formalizing Inflectional Paradigm Shape with Information Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.10/)**Grace LeFevre, Micha Elsner, Andrea D. Sims
24. **[Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Syntactic Constructions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.41/)**Zoey Liu, Emily Morgan
25. **[Global divergence and local convergence of utterance semantic representations in dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.11/)**Yang Xu
26. **[How to apply for financial aid: Exploring perplexity and jargon in texts for non-expert audiences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.39/)**Laura Manor, Yiran Su, Zachary W. Taylor et al.
27. **[How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.55/)**Katrin Erk, Aurélie Herbelot
28. **[Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.42/)**Elias Stengel-Eskin, Jimena Guallar-Blasco, Benjamin Van Durme
29. **[Inflectional paradigms as interacting systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.13/)**Eric Rosen
30. **[Information flow, artificial phonology and typology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.14/)**Adamantios Gafos
31. **[Learnability of derivationally opaque processes in the Gestural Harmony Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.44/)**Caitlin Smith, Charlie O'Hara
32. **[Learnability of indexed constraint analyses of phonological opacity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.15/)**Aleksei Nazarov
33. **[Learning Interactions of Local and Non-Local Phonotactic Constraints from Positive Input ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.16/)**Aniello De Santo, Alëna Aksënova
34. **[Learning Morphological Productivity as Meaning-Form Mappings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.17/)**Sarah Payne, Jordan Kodner, Charles Yang
35. **[Learning nonlocal phonotactics in Strictly Piecewise phonotactic model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.45/)**Huteng Dai
36. **[Learning the surface structure of wh-questions in English and French with a non-parametric Bayesian model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.46/)**An Nguyen, Colin Wilson
37. **[Lexical strata and phonotactic perplexity minimization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.48/)**Eric Rosen
38. **[Look at that! BERT can be easily distracted from paying attention to morphosyntax ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.3/)**Rui P. Chaves, Stephanie N. Richter
39. **[Modeling German Word Order Acquisition via Bayesian Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.49/)**Annika Heuser, Polina Tsvilodub
40. **[Modeling cross-linguistic production of referring expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.19/)**Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen
41. **[Multilingual BERT, ergativity, and grammatical subjecthood ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.50/)**Isabel Papadimitriou, Ethan A. Chi, Richard Futrell et al.
42. **[Multiple Wh-Movement is not Special: The Subregular Complexity of Persistent Features in Minimalist Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.25/)**Thomas Graf, Kalina Kostyszyn
43. **[Multiple alignments of inflectional paradigms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.20/)**Sacha Beniamine, Matías Guzmán Naranjo
44. **[Overview of AMALGUM – Large Silver Quality Annotations across English Genres ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.52/)**Luke Gessler, Siyao Peng, Yang Liu et al.
45. **[Pragmatically Informative Color Generation by Grounding Contextual Modifiers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.53/)**Zhengxuan Wu, Desmond C. Ong
46. **[Predicting scalar inferences from “or” to “not both” using neural sentence encoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2021-predicting-scalar-inferences-or-not/)**Elissa Li, Sebastian Schuster, Judith Degen*our summary*
47. **[SNACS Annotation of Case Markers and Adpositions in Hindi ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.56/)**Aryaman Arora, Nitin Venkateswaran, Nathan Schneider
48. **[Strong Learning of Probabilistic Tree Adjoining Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.47/)**Alexander Clark
49. **[Strong generative capacity of morphological processes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.21/)**Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski, Jeffrey Heinz
50. **[Structure Here, Bias There: Hierarchical Generalization by Jointly Learning Syntactic Transformations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.12/)**Karl Mulligan, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen
51. **[Structure-(in)dependent Interpretation of Phrases in Humans and LSTMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.57/)**Cas W. Coopmans, Helen de Hoop, Karthikeya Kaushik et al.
52. **[Supersense and Sensibility: Proxy Tasks for Semantic Annotation of Prepositions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.58/)**Luke Gessler, Shira Wein, Nathan Schneider
53. **[Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anderson-2021-tell-me-everything-you-know/)**Carolyn Jane Anderson*our summary*
54. **[Testing for Grammatical Category Abstraction in Neural Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.59/)**Najoung Kim, Paul Smolensky
55. **[The Crosslinguistic Relationship between Ordering Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization: A Data-Driven Approach ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.24/)**Zoey Liu
56. **[Tuiteamos o pongamos un tuit? Investigating the Social Constraints of Loanword Integration in Spanish Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.26/)**Ian Stewart, Diyi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein
57. **[Using Word Embeddings to Uncover Discourses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.27/)**Quentin Dénigot, Heather Burnett
58. **[Vowel Harmony Viewed as Error-Correcting Code ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.28/)**Yvo Meeres, Tommi A Pirinen
59. **[What's in a Span? Evaluating the Creativity of a Span-Based Neural Constituency Parser ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.29/)**Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler
60. **[Will it Unblend? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.61/)**Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Jacob Eisenstein
61. **[`Most' vs `More Than Half': An Alternatives Explanation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.30/)**Fausto Carcassi, Jakub Szymanik
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