Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2011-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Parallel processing and sentence comprehension difficulty
Description: Eye fixation durations during normal reading correlate  with processing difficulty but the specific cognitive mechanisms  reflected in these measures are not well understood. This study finds  support in German readers' eye fixations for two distinct difficulty  metrics: surprisal, which reflects the change in probabilities across  syntactic analyses as new words are integrated, and retrieval, which  quantifies comprehension difficulty in terms of working  memory constraints. We examine the predictions of both metrics using a  family of dependency parsers indexed by an upper limit on the number of  candidate syntactic analyses they retain at successive words. Surprisal  models all fixation measures and regression probability. By contrast,  retrieval does not model any measure in serial processing. As more  candidate analyses are considered in parallel at each word, retrieval  can account for the same measures as surprisal. This pattern suggests an  important role for ranked parallelism in theories of sentence  comprehension.DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.492228Boston, M.F., Hale, J.T., Vasishth, S. and Kliegl, R. (2011).  Parallelism and syntactic processes in reading difficulty. Language and  Cognitive Processes, 26, 301-349
Author: Marisa Boston and John Hale and Shravan Vasishth and Reinhold Kliegl
Maintainer: John Hale <jthale@cornell.edu>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Marisa", family = "Boston", middle = "Ferrara", email = "example@example.com", role = c("aut")), person(given ="John", family = "Hale", middle = "T.", email = "jthale@cornell.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Shravan", family = "Vasishth", email = "example@example.com", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Reinhold", family = "Kliegl", email = "example@example.com", role = c("aut")))
Package: BostonHaleVasishthKliegl2011
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
