The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. - Vlad C. Nedelcu; Kenny Smith (CogSci, 2022)

Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. - Vlad C. Nedelcu; Kenny Smith; Daniel Lassiter (CogSci, 2023)