Uncertainty reduction as a predictor of reading difficulty in Chinese relative clauses ∗
Uncertainty reduction as a predictor of reading difficulty in Chinese relative clauses ∗
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不确定性降低作为中文关系从句阅读难度的预测因子*
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2012
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J. Hale
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Zhong Chen;L. Jäger;J. Hale
This work applies the incremental complexity metric, Entropy Reduction (ER), to model the processing of prenominal Chinese relative clauses. ER formalizes the amount of information gained by an ideal parser as it strives to reduce structural uncertainty during sentence comprehension. In this work, per-word ER values reflect transformational syntactic proposals as well as distributional frequencies estimated from the Chinese Treebank. We show that these assumptions together are sufficient to derive the processing contrast between subjectand object-extracted relative clauses. This prediction is consistent with empirical results such as Lin & Bever 2006, among others. These ER values summarize changes in the probability distribution over syntactic alternatives, including expectations for future words. This approach enriches the structural frequency idea about relative clause processing with a more detailed explanation of ambiguity-resolution on a word-by-word basis.
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2011
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The Proceedings of the 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
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Mark Mullins;et al.;David Yoo and Albert Park;eds.;Hideyo Ogawa;田中咲子;鈴木義一;Baris Kahraman
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Baris Kahraman