Luke Smith

Luke Smith
  • Game theoretic analyses of processing semantic scope in sentence representations
  • Exploring how many ostensibly syntactic processes can be resolved as interactions with other mental systems.

Luke works on motivating language properties and alternations traditionally ascribed to syntax with language-external principles, pragmatics and prosody. The goal is to strip the theoretical structure of the language faculty to as small as possible, and understand what causes cause individual languages to vary.