Memory and surprisal in human sentence comprehension
Memory and surprisal in human sentence comprehension
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人类句子理解中的记忆和惊讶
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2013
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R. Levy
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R. Levy
Humboldt famously described language as a system of rules which “makes infinite use of finite means” (Humboldt, 1836; Chomsky, 1965) and this is doubly true in the study of language comprehension. On the one hand, the comprehender’s knowledge of language must be finitely characterized: the brain itself as a computational device is finite, as is the comprehender’s experience of her native language. Hence understanding is an act of generalization: the comprehender must apply the knowledge gleaned from her lifetime of previous linguistic experience to analyze a new sentence and infer what the speaker is likely to have intended to mean. This need for analysis gives rise to the second sense in which Humboldt’s aphorism is true: to understand a sentence in real time the comprehender must deploy her limited cognitive resources to analyze input that is potentially unbounded in its complexity. Nowhere are these truths more evident than in the determination of sentence structure during language comprehension, as in (1) below. Before you go on reading, take as much time as you need to fully understand this sentence, and while you are doing so, reflect upon what you find difficult about it. You may even want to write down your reflections on its difficulty so that you can remind yourself of them once you reach the end of the chapter.
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4.3
作者:
Levy, Roger P.;Keller, Frank
通讯作者:
Keller, Frank
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发表时间:
2000
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Dan Jurafsky;James H. Martin
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
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Gordon,PeterC
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
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Nicol,J
DOI:
10.1037/h0078817
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1993-06-01
影响因子:
1.3
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CLIFTON, C
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CLIFTON, C