Greedy or not, here I come: Language production under vocabulary constraints in humans and resource-rational models

ArXi:2605.15365v1 Announce Type: new Communicating using only a limited vocabulary is a common but challenging cognitive phenomenon, requiring an ideal communicator to plan carefully to optimize for intelligibility while circumventing a constrained lexicon. In this work, we investigate how humans respond to a broad array of questions under variable vocabulary limitations, consisting of only 250 highly frequent words at the most restrictive.