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Direct linkGibson, Edward – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
This paper investigates how people resolve syntactic category ambiguities when comprehending sentences. It is proposed that people combine: (a) context-dependent syntactic expectations (top-down statistical information) and (b) context-independent lexical-category frequencies of words (bottom-up statistical information) in order to resolve…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentence Structure, Language Acquisition, Models
