Dr Francis Mollica
Lecturer in Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
37 Scholarly works
0 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2024
Media
Is legal jargon actually a ‘magic spell’? Science says maybe
2022
Journal article
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.1050702022
Journal article
Logical word learning: The case of kinship
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-02017-52021
Journal article
The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.20259931182021
Journal article
Speakers and Listeners Exploit Word Order for Communicative Efficiency: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation
DOI: 10.1037/xge00009632019
Journal article
Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.1813932017
Journal article
How Data Drive Early Word Learning: A Cross-Linguistic Waiting Time Analysis
DOI: 10.1162/opmi_a_00006
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2026
Journal article
Search Efficiency Drives Reference Production Across Modalities, But Colour Is Special.
DOI: 10.1162/OPMI.a.3372025
Conference Proceedings
What does memory retrieval leave on the table? Modelling the Cost of Semi-Compositionality with MINERVA2 and sBERT
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.192025
Book Chapter
Context-sensitive word frequency: A context constructivist account of contextual diversity and word frequency effects
DOI: 10.1016/bs.plm.2025.07.0042025
Book Chapter
Information-theoretic and machine learning methods for semantic categorization
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.212025
Conference Proceedings
Perceptual discriminability drives overinformative reference, but colour information is special
2024
Journal article
Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_021642024
Conference Proceedings
What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations
2024
Journal article
Even Laypeople Use Legalese
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2405564121