کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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932422 | 923110 | 2006 | 26 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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This paper investigates how people resolve syntactic category ambiguities when comprehending sentences. It is proposed that people combine: (a) context-dependent syntactic expectations (top–down statistical information) and (b) context-independent lexical-category frequencies of words (bottom–up statistical information) in order to resolve ambiguities in the lexical categories of words. Three self-paced reading experiments were conducted involving the ambiguous word “that” in different syntactic environments in order to test these and other hypotheses. The data support the top–down/bottom–up approach in which the relative frequencies of lexical entries for a word are tabulated independent of context. Data from other experiments from the literature are discussed with respect to the model proposed here.
Journal: Journal of Memory and Language - Volume 54, Issue 3, April 2006, Pages 363–388