| Presentation | 2009-07-19 Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing Manabu ARAI, Frank KELLER, Vera DEMBERG, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Many studies have recently shown that comprehenders can anticipate upcoming information on the basis of only part of a sentence. However, all experimental evidence to date has only dealt with the prediction of grammatical heads and their complements. Here, we address the question of whether people also predict modifiers, syntactically non-obligatory elements. Two experiments were conducted to examine whether the processing of a post-nominal relative clause is facilitated when it can be predicted. The results showed some evidence for prediction of the modifiers, which is consistent with a surprisal-based view of processing complexity (Hale, 2001), but not with Gibson's (1998) notion of prediction memory cost, which only applies to heads. |
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| Keyword(in English) | prediction / eye-movements / sentence comprehension |
| Paper # | TL2009-20 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/7/11(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing |
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| Keyword(1) | prediction |
| Keyword(2) | eye-movements |
| Keyword(3) | sentence comprehension |
| 1st Author's Name | Manabu ARAI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | RIKEN, Brain Science Institute() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Frank KELLER |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum |
| 3rd Author's Name | Vera DEMBERG |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum |
| Date | 2009-07-19 |
| Paper # | TL2009-20 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 140 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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