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I briefly review some of the current theoretical proposals relating to integrative and predictive processes in online sentence comprehension, with particular reference to two phenomena: locality and similarity-based interference. Regarding locality, current research suggests that several of the competing theories of locality may not be alternative explanations but rather orthogonal ones: models such as Dependency Locality Theory and the ACT-R model define ˵backward-looking″ processes (retrieval of previously seen/processed elements) whereas theories such as surprisal specify a complexity metric that relies on ˵forward-looking″ processes (prediction of upcoming material) (Demberg, V., & Keller, F. (2008). Eye-tracting corpora as evidence for theories of syntactic processing complexity. (Submitted to Congnition); Levy. R. (2008). Expectation - based syntactic compression Cognition, 106, 1126–1177). Regarding interference, I present several distinct theories of interference that are on the market, and suggest that their differing predictions need to be empirically investigated. Finally, I point out an unresolved puzzle regarding locality, interference, and nature of memory representations that play a role in sentence comprehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
