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Direct linkFerguson, Heather J.; Jayes, Lewis T. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Previous research has established that readers' eye movements are sensitive to the difficulty with which a word is processed. One important factor that influences processing is the fit of a word within the wider context, including its plausibility. Here we explore the influence of plausibility in counterfactual language processing. Counterfactuals…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Processing, Context Effect, Native Speakers
Ambridge, Ben; Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2008
According to Crain and Nakayama (1987), when forming complex yes/no questions, children do not make errors such as "Is the boy who smoking is crazy?" because they have innate knowledge of "structure dependence" and so will not move the auxiliary from the relative clause. However, simple recurrent networks are also able to avoid…
Descriptors: Children, Language Processing, Language Patterns, Linguistic Input
