A new argument for co-active parses during language comprehension
| Autor: | Dillon, Brian, Andrews, Caroline, Rotello, Caren, Wagers, Matthew |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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computational modeling
Signal Detection Psychological parsing Social and Behavioral Sciences computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Sentence processing Psycholinguistics syntactic ambiguity Argument Models Psychology ROC signal detection theory media_common Parsing 05 social sciences Experimental Psychology Ambiguity Signal Detection FOS: Psychology Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Cognitive Sciences Comprehension Natural language processing Sentence Adult Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Models Psychological 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences psycholinguistics business.industry Linguistics sentence processing ROCs Reading comprehension ROC Curve Reading FOS: Languages and literature sentence comprehension Psychological Artificial intelligence business computer |
| Zdroj: | Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, vol 45, iss 7 |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/n2b4d |
| Popis: | One perennially important question for theories of sentence comprehension is whether the human sentence processing mechanism is parallel (i.e., it simultaneously represents multiple syntactic analyses of linguistic input) or serial (i.e., it constructs only a single analysis at a time). Despite its centrality, this question has proven difficult to address for both theoretical and methodological reasons (Gibson & Pearlmutter, 2000; Lewis, 2000). In the present study, we reassess this question from a novel perspective. We investigated the well-known ambiguity advantage effect (Traxler, Pickering, & Clifton, 1998) in a speeded acceptability judgment task. We adopted a signal detection theoretic approach to these data, with the goal of determining whether speeded judgment responses were conditioned on one or multiple syntactic analyses. To link these results to incremental parsing models, we developed formal models to quantitatively evaluate how serial and parallel parsing models should impact perceived sentence acceptability in our task. Our results suggest that speeded acceptability judgments are jointly conditioned on multiple parses of the input, a finding that is overall more consistent with parallel parsing models than serial models. Our study thus provides a new, psychophysical argument for coactive parses during language comprehension. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
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