Repository: OpenScienceRepository
Depends: R (>= 2.14)
Date: 2008-01-01 00:00:00
Title: Processing Polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical
Description: A central question in online human sentence comprehension is: how are linguistic relations established between different parts of a sentence? Previ- ous work has shown that this dependency resolution process can be com- putationally expensive, but the underlying reasons for this are still unclear. We argue that dependency resolution is mediated by cue-based retrieval, constrained by independently motivated working memory principles de- fined in a cognitive architecture (ACT-R). To demonstrate this, we investi- gate an unusual instance of dependency resolution, the processing of nega- tive and positive polarity items, and confirm a surprising prediction of the cue-based retrieval model: partial cue-matches--which constitute a kind of similarity-based interference--can give rise to the intrusion of ungram- matical retrieval candidates, leading to both processing slow-downs and even errors of judgment that take the form of illusions of grammaticality in patently ungrammatical structures. A notable achievement is that good quantitative fits are achieved without adjusting the key model parameters.   Cognitive Science 32, 685-712  
Author: Shravan Vasishth and Sven Brussow and Richard Lewis and Heiner Drenhaus
Maintainer: Shravan Vasishth <vasishth@uni-potsdam.de>
Authors@R: c(person(given ="Shravan", family = "Vasishth", email = "vasishth@uni-potsdam.de", role = c("aut", "cre")), person(given ="Sven", family = "Brussow", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Richard", family = "Lewis", middle = "L", role = c("aut")), person(given ="Heiner", family = "Drenhaus", role = c("aut")))
Package: VasishthBrussowLewisDrenhaus2008
Version: 1.0
License: CC BY-NC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/de/)
