Predictability in language comprehension: Prospects and problems for surprisal

A Staub - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Surprisal theory proposes that a word's predictability influences processing difficulty
because each word requires the comprehender to update a probability distribution over …

Incremental Discourse‐Update Constrains Number Agreement Attraction Effect

SJ Kim, M **ang - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While a large body of work in sentence comprehension has explored how different types of
linguistic information are used to guide syntactic parsing, less is known about the effect of …

Memory Encoding and Retrieval of Discourse Structure in Human Language Comprehension

S Kim - 2024 - search.proquest.com
An extensive amount of work has shown the way the working memory architecture supports
language comprehension. However, while language comprehension inevitably takes place …