Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus

Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus

The surprisal of a word on a probabilistic grammar constitutes a promising complexity metric for human sentence comprehension difficulty. Using two different grammar types, surprisal is shown to have an effect on fixation durations and regression probabilities in a sample of German readers’ eye move...

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Main Authors: Marisa Ferrara Boston, John Hale, Reinhold Kliegl, Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2008-09-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
Subjects:
surprisal
parsing costs
potsdam sentence corpus
parsing difficulty
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2255

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https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2255

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