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2009-07-19 10:00
Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing Manabu Arai (Riken BSI), Frank Keller, Vera Demberg (Univ. of Edinburgh) TL2009-20 |
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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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prediction / eye-movements / sentence comprehension / / / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 140, TL2009-20, pp. 67-72, July 2009. |
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TL2009-20 |
Date of Issue |
2009-07-11 (TL) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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Conference Information |
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2009-07-18 - 2009-07-19 |
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New Century Plaza II, Hakozaki Campus of Kyushu Univ. |
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Processing and Learning of Human Language |
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Prediction of modifiers during sentence processing |
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Manabu Arai |
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RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Riken BSI) |
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Frank Keller |
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University of Edinburgh (Univ. of Edinburgh) |
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Vera Demberg |
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Date Time |
2009-07-19 10:00:00 |
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35 minutes |
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TL2009-20 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.109 |
Number (no) |
no.140 |
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pp.67-72 |
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6 |
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2009-07-11 (TL) |
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