Moshe Poliak

McGovern Institute for Brain Research — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(6), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism(5), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(2), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(2), Child and Animal Learning Development(2)

Publications14 total

Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
The Relationship Between Surprisal and Prosodic Prominence in Conversation Reflects Intelligibility‐Oriented Pressures
Cognitive Science·2025Open Access
Word and construction probabilities explain the acceptability of certain long-distance dependency structures
Cognition·2025
A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions, intonation processing and causal reasoning
2025Open Access
Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: social conventions, intonation, and world-knowledge-based causal reasoning
2025Open Access
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
2025Open Access
The cerebellar components of the human language network
2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Rational language comprehension depends on priors about both meaning and structure.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2025Open Access
The relationship between surprisal, prosody, and backchannels in conversation reflects intelligibility-oriented pressures
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The relationship between surprisal, prosody, and backchannels in conversation reflects intelligibility-oriented pressures
2025Open Access
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Journal of Language Evolution·2025
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
2024Open Access
A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions, intonation processing and causal reasoning
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
It is not what you say but how you say it: Evidence from Russian shows robust effects of the structural prior on noisy channel inferences.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2023· 10 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

E. Leigh Gibson(7), Evelina Fedorenko(6), Sammy Floyd(4), Olessia Jouravlev(4), Zachary Mineroff(4), Thomas Clark(3), Tamar I. Regev(3), Caroline Robertson(3), Alicia Chen(3), Roger Lévy(3), Noga Zaslavsky(3), Edward Gibson(2), Matthias Höfer(2), Amanda J. Haskins(2), Rachel Ryskin(1), Mika Braginsky(1), Colton Casto(1), Hannah Small(1), Patrick Sherlock(1), Agata Wolna(1)