Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading

Yadav, Himanshu; Smith, Garrett; Reich, Sebastian; Vasishth, Shravan

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2022.104400

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“…. , the ungrammatical word were is now much less surprising than in a setting where the preamble is always represented veridically (Yadav et al, 2023). Similarly, in a missing VP sentence like The apartment that the maid who the cleaning service sent over was well-decorated, if the preamble is edited to contain only two as opposed to three subject nouns, not encountering a third verb would not be surprising to the reader (Futrell et al, 2020;Hahn et al, 2022).…”

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“…The current implementation of the noisy-channel proposal as an MPT model is considerably less detailed than the ones provided by Hahn et al (2022) and Yadav et al (2023), as it neither takes into account the size of the required edits, nor the corpus frequencies of the different constructions. On the other hand, it is, to my knowledge, the first implementation that takes into account both distortions and repairs across grammatical, ungrammatical, and illusion sentences.…”

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“…For instance, it has been suggested that agreement attraction, missing VP, and NPI illusions can be explained by a cue-based retrieval mechanism that sometimes accesses incorrect elements in working memory (Wagers et al, 2009;Vasishth et al, 2008;Häussler and Bader, 2015). Cue-based retrieval can potentially be integrated with good-enough processing, either in the sense that memory representations can be faulty because not all aspects of the stimulus were processed or retained (Yadav et al, 2023), or in the sense that there is an additional error monitoring step after retrieval that may be omitted when processing is superficial.…”

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How do linguistic illusions arise? Rational inference and good-enough processing as competing latent processes within individuals

Paape¹

2023

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Non-literal interpretations of implausible sentences such as "The mother gave the candle the daughter" have been taken as evidence for a rational error-correction mechanism that reconstructs the intended utterance from the ill-formed input ("... gave the daughter the candle"). However, the good-enough processing framework offers an alternative explanation: readers sometimes miss problematic aspects of sentences because they are only processing them superficially, which leads to acceptability illusions. As a synthesis of these accounts, I propose that rational inferences about errors on the one hand and good-enough processing on the other are competing latent processes that simultaneously occur within the same comprehender. In support of this view, I present data from a two-dimensional grammaticality/ interpretability judgment task with different types of subtly ill-formed sentences. Both rational inference and good-enough processing predict positive interpretability judgments for such sentences, but only good-enough processing also predicts positive grammaticality judgments. By fitting a lognormal race model jointly to judgments and response latencies, I show that rational inference and good-enough processing actively trade off with each other during reading. Furthermore, individual differences measures reveal that participant traits such as linguistic pedantry, interpretational charity, and analytic/intuitive cognitive styles contribute to variability in the processing patterns.

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“…Similarly, self-organizing theories predict that local interactions between strings of words can interfere with the formation of the overall structure of the sentence, especially when the local string is semantically coherent (Smith et al, 2021). At present, our results do not adjudicate between these theories, and quantitative model comparisons (see Paape & Vasishth, 2022;Yadav et al, 2023, for examples) will be necessary to determine which theories best explain the overall pattern of local coherence effects.…”

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Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses?

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Smith,

Vasishth

2023

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For decades, a major underlying assumption behind theories of sentence comprehension has been that the parser only entertains analyses that are grammatically consistent with all words encountered in the sentence so far. A dramatic challenge to this self-consistency assumption came from two self-paced reading experiments in English (Tabor et al., 2004). Using a syntactic and a semantic manipulation, Tabor et al. found that participants read a string of words more slowly if the string could locally form a grammatical structure that is ungrammatical given the preceding words. In the years since, such local coherence effects, and in particular syntactic local coherence effects, have generated much debate about the nature of human sentence parsing, and have become a central explanandum for psycholinguistic theories. Despite this attention, to our knowledge no one has directly attempted to replicate the claimed effects. Here, we present a large-sample replication attempt using the original Tabor et al. syntactic and semantic local coherence design using two methods (self-paced reading and bidirectional self-paced reading). A Bayes factor analysis shows evidence against a syntactic local coherence effect, and at best moderate evidence for a semantic local coherence effect. Our results suggest that the original effect sizes, especially for the much-debated syntactic local coherence effect, are likely to be overestimates due to low power in the original Tabor et al. (2004) study. An important implication for psycholinguistic theory is that the challenge to self-consistency posed by local coherence effects is not as strong as previously believed. Our results are therefore inconsistent with theories that predict local coherence effects.

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“…For this reason, the present evaluation should be seen rather as a proof-of-concept rather than a comprehensive evaluation. Such an evaluation would require significant amounts of benchmark data (for examples of such extensive evaluations, see Engelmann et al, 2020;Nicenboim et al, 2020;Yadav et al, 2023) and must be left for future work. Table 2, and Figures 7 and 8 show that the predictions for the experimental effects of animacy (semantic interference) and subjecthood (syntactic interference) in the experimental data are generally more in agreement with SEAM than with SWIFT: the violin plots in Figure 7 from SEAM have a better overlap than the observed data than the predictions from SWIFT.…”

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SEAM: An Integrated Activation-Coupled Model of Sentence Processing and Eye Movements in Reading

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Paape²,

Mertzen³

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Models of eye-movement control during reading, developed largely within psychology, usually focus on visual, attentional, and motor processes but neglect postlexical language processing; by contrast, models of sentence comprehension processes, developed largely within psycholinguistics, generally focus only on postlexical language processes. We present a model that combines these two research threads, by integrating eye-movement control and sentence processing. Developing such an integrated model is extremely challenging and computationally demanding, but such an integration is an important step toward complete mathematical models of natural language comprehension in reading. We combine the SWIFT model of eye-movement control (Engbert et al.,

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Number feature distortion modulates cue-based retrieval in reading

Cited by 10 publications

References 122 publications

How do linguistic illusions arise? Rational inference and good-enough processing as competing latent processes within individuals

How do linguistic illusions arise? Rational inference and good-enough processing as competing latent processes within individuals

Do local coherence effects exist in English reduced relative clauses?

SEAM: An Integrated Activation-Coupled Model of Sentence Processing and Eye Movements in Reading

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