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Wu, Fuyun; Kaiser, Elsi; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2018
We used Chinese prenominal relative clauses (RCs) to test the predictions of two competing accounts of sentence comprehension difficulty: the experience-based account of Levy, 2008) and the Dependency Locality Theory (DLT; Gibson, 2000). Given that in Chinese RCs, a classifier and/or a passive marker BEI can be added to the sentence-initial…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Processing, Chinese, Comprehension
The Challenges of Large-Scale, Web-Based Language Datasets: Word Length and Predictability Revisited
Meylan, Stephan C.; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Language research has come to rely heavily on large-scale, web-based datasets. These datasets can present significant methodological challenges, requiring researchers to make a number of decisions about how they are collected, represented, and analyzed. These decisions often concern long-standing challenges in corpus-based language research,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Word Frequency, Prediction
Scontras, Gregory; Badecker, William; Shank, Lisa; Lim, Eunice; Fedorenko, Evelina – Cognitive Science, 2015
Syntactic complexity effects have been investigated extensively with respect to comprehension (e.g., Demberg & Keller, 2008; Gibson, 1998, 2000; Gordon et al., 2001, 2004; Grodner & Gibson, 2005; King & Just, 1991; Lewis & Vasishth, 2005; Lewis et al., 2006; McElree et al., 2003; Wanner & Maratsos, 1978). According to one…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Sentences, Language Processing
Kocab, Annemarie; Lam, Hannah; Snedeker, Jesse – Cognitive Science, 2018
A well-known typological observation is the dominance of subject-initial word orders, SOV and SVO, across the world's languages. Recent findings from gestural language creation paradigms offer possible explanations for the prevalence of SOV. When asked to gesture transitive events with an animate agent and inanimate patient, gesturers tend to…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nonverbal Communication, Hypothesis Testing, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Yadav, Himanshu; Vaidya, Ashwini; Shukla, Vishakha; Husain, Samar – Cognitive Science, 2020
Much previous work has suggested that word order preferences across languages can be explained by the dependency distance minimization constraint (Ferrer-i Cancho, 2008, 2015; Hawkins, 1994). Consistent with this claim, corpus studies have shown that the average distance between a head (e.g., verb) and its dependent (e.g., noun) tends to be short…
Descriptors: Word Order, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Fedorenko, Evelina; Piantadosi, Steve; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2012
Results from two self-paced reading experiments in English are reported in which subject- and object-extracted relative clauses (SRCs and ORCs, respectively) were presented in contexts that support both types of relative clauses (RCs). Object-extracted versions were read more slowly than subject-extracted versions across both experiments. These…
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Short Term Memory, Nouns