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Presentation 2009-07-19 10:00
Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing
Manabu Arai (Riken BSI), Frank Keller, Vera Demberg (Univ. of Edinburgh) TL2009-20
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(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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(in English) prediction / eye-movements / sentence comprehension / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 140, TL2009-20, pp. 67-72, July 2009.
Paper # TL2009-20 
Date of Issue 2009-07-11 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2009-07-18 - 2009-07-19 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) New Century Plaza II, Hakozaki Campus of Kyushu Univ. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Processing and Learning of Human Language 
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Conference Code 2009-07-TL 
Language English (Japanese title is available) 
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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  
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1st Author's Name Manabu Arai  
1st Author's Affiliation RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Riken BSI)
2nd Author's Name Frank Keller  
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Edinburgh (Univ. of Edinburgh)
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3rd Author's Affiliation University of Edinburgh (Univ. of Edinburgh)
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Date Time 2009-07-19 10:00:00 
Presentation Time 35 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2009-20 
Volume (vol) vol.109 
Number (no) no.140 
Page pp.67-72 
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Date of Issue 2009-07-11 (TL) 


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