Sentence Processing

Human sentence processing involves integrat- ing probabilistic knowledge from a variety of sources in order to incrementally determine the hierarchical structure for the serial input stream. While a large number …...

. We propose in this paper a new contribution to the evaluation of linguistic diffi- culty. At the opposite of classical approaches relying on syntax, we show that a probabilis- …...

Chunks and the notion of activation : a facilitation model for sentence processing We propose in this paper to integrate the notion of chunk within a global architecture for sentence …...

AbstractA number of psycholinguistic studies have factorially manipulated words’ contextual predictabilities and corpus frequencies and shown separable effects of each on measures of human sentence processing, a pattern which has …...