| 2026 | ACL | Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in sentence processing. | Weijie Xu, Brian Dillon, Richard Futrell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Adaptation to noisy language input in real time: Evidence from ERPs. | Jiaxuan Li, Alyssa Viviana Ortega, Richard Futrell, Rachel Ryskin |
| 2025 | CogSci | Soft production preferences emerge from a bottleneck on memory. | Neil Rathi, Richard Futrell, Dan Jurafsky |
| 2025 | CogSci | Examining Future Context Predictability Effects in Word-form Variation and Word Choice. | Shiva Upadhye, Richard Futrell |
| 2024 | ACL | Mission: Impossible Language Models. | Julie Kallini, Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Christopher Potts |
| 2024 | CogSci | An information-theoretic model of shallow and deep language comprehension. | Jiaxuan Li, Richard Futrell |
| 2024 | CogSci | A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming. | Weijie Xu, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | CogSci | An information-theoretic account of availability effects in language production. | Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | CogSci | A decomposition of surprisal tracks the N400 and P600 brain potentials. | Jiaxuan Li, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | CogSci | Chinese words shorten in more predictive contexts. | Yanting Li, Gregory Scontras, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | CogSci | Typing time PWI: A scalable paradigm for studying lexical production. | Shiva Upadhye, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Exploring the Sensitivity of LLMs' Decision-Making Capabilities: Insights from Prompt Variations and Hyperparameters. | Manikanta Loya, Divya Sinha, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Simpler neural networks prefer subregular languages. | Charles Torres, Richard Futrell |
| 2023 | EMNLP | The Linearity of the Effect of Surprisal on Reading Times across Languages. | Weijie Xu, Jason Chon, Tianran Liu, Richard Futrell |
| 2022 | ACL | When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn't care about word order... except when it matters. | Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald |
| 2022 | CogSci | The efficiency of dropping vowels in Romanised Arabic script. | Zeinab Kachakeche, Gregory Scontras, Richard Futrell |
| 2022 | CogSci | Explaining patterns of fusion in morphological paradigms using the memory-surprisal tradeoff. | Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell |
| 2022 | CogSci | Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities. | Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li, Ming Xiang, Richard Futrell |
| 2022 | COLING | Measuring Morphological Fusion Using Partial Information Decomposition. | Michaela Socolof, Jacob Louis Hoover, Richard Futrell, Alessandro Sordoni, Timothy J. O'Donnell |
| 2021 | ACL | Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain. | William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu, Gregory Scontras |
| 2021 | CogSci | Word order affects the frequency of adjective use across languages. | Zeinab Kachakeche, Richard Futrell, Gregory Scontras |
| 2021 | EACL | Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT. | Isabel Papadimitriou, Ethan A. Chi, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald |
| 2021 | EMNLP | An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Morphological Fusion. | Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell |
| 2020 | ACL | What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks. | Richard Futrell, William Dyer, Gregory Scontras |
| 2020 | EMNLP | Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models. | Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Ryosuke Kohita, Roger Levy, Miguel Ballesteros |
| 2019 | CogSci | Verb Frequency Explains the Unacceptability of Factive and Manner-of-speaking Islands in English. | Yingtong Liu, Rachel Ryskin, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson |
| 2019 | CogSci | What Syntactic Structures block Dependencies in RNN Language Models? | Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Richard Futrell |
| 2019 | NAACL | Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state. | Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita, Peng Qian, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger Levy |
| 2019 | NAACL | Language Learning and Processing in People and Machines. | Aida Nematzadeh, Richard Futrell, Roger Levy |
| 2019 | NAACL | Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies. | Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell, Miguel Ballesteros, Roger Levy |
| 2018 | CogSci | An Information-Theoretic Explanation of Adjective Ordering Preferences. | Michael Hahn, Judith Degen, Noah D. Goodman, Dan Jurafsky, Richard Futrell |
| 2018 | EMNLP | What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler-Gap Dependencies? | Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Takashi Morita, Richard Futrell |
| 2018 | LREC | The Natural Stories Corpus. | Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Harry J. Tily, Idan A. Blank, Anastasia Vishnevetsky, Steven T. Piantadosi, Evelina Fedorenko |
| 2017 | CogSci | Cute Little Puppies and Nice Cold Beers: An Information Theoretic Analysis of Prenominal Adjectives. | Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell, Michael Ramscar |
| 2017 | CogSci | Comprehenders Model the Nature of Noise in the Environment. | Rachel Ryskin, Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson |
| 2017 | EACL | Noisy-context surprisal as a human sentence processing cost model. | Richard Futrell, Roger Levy |
| 2015 | CogSci | The Social Evolution and Communicative Function of Noun Classification. | Michael Ramscar, Melody Dye, Petar Milin, Richard Futrell |
| 2015 | EMNLP | Experiments with Generative Models for Dependency Tree Linearization. | Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson |
| 2013 | CogSci | The 'universal' structure of name grammars and the impact of social engineering on the evolution of natural information systems. | Michael Ramscar, Asha Halima Smith, Melody Dye, Richard Futrell, Peter Hendrix, R. Harald Baayen, Rebecca Starr |