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View article: The influence of syntactic priming on syntactic prediction in SOV languages
The influence of syntactic priming on syntactic prediction in SOV languages Open
Syntactic prediction and syntactic priming are known to be important determinants of processing in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) languages. In this work we investigate how they interact during sentence comprehension of an SOV language Bengali.…
View article: IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A Quantitative Analysis of a Spoken Corpus of Hindi
IIT Delhi Dialogue Corpus: A Quantitative Analysis of a Spoken Corpus of Hindi Open
We present our effort to create a dialogue corpus for Hindi with the aim of under-standing (a) the nature of linguistic utterances during naturalistic dialogue, (b)what these linguistic patterns tell us about the cognitive processes/constr…
View article: The influence of syntactic priming on syntactic prediction in SOV languages
The influence of syntactic priming on syntactic prediction in SOV languages Open
Syntactic prediction and syntactic priming are known to be important determinants of processing in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) languages. In this work we investigate how they interact during sentence comprehension of an SOV language Bengali.…
View article: Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies
Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies Open
In two web-based experiments, we compare comprehension difficulty between Dutch and German sentences with clusters of two or three verbs. In Dutch, such sentences involve crossing dependencies, whereas these dependencies are nested in Germ…
View article: Do working memory constraints influence prediction in verb-final languages?
Do working memory constraints influence prediction in verb-final languages? Open
Prediction is argued to be a key factor in comprehending sentences in verb-final languages. The comprehender can predict the properties of the upcoming verb phrase using linguistic cues from the pre-verbal input. What are the constraints o…
View article: Do Speakers Minimize Dependency Length during Naturalistic Dialogue?
Do Speakers Minimize Dependency Length during Naturalistic Dialogue? Open
Dependency Length Minimization (DLM) is considered to be a linguistic universal governing word order variation cross-linguistically. However, evidence for DLM from large-scale corpus work is typically based on written (news) corpus and its…
View article: Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects
Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects Open
The effective use of preverbal linguistic cues to make successful clause-final verbal prediction as well as robust maintenance of such predictions has been argued to be a cross-linguistic generalisation for SOV languages such as German and…
View article: Assessing Corpus Evidence for Formal and Psycholinguistic Constraints on Nonprojectivity
Assessing Corpus Evidence for Formal and Psycholinguistic Constraints on Nonprojectivity Open
Formal constraints on crossing dependencies have played a large role in research on the formal complexity of natural language grammars and parsing. Here we ask whether the apparent evidence for constraints on crossing dependencies in treeb…
View article: A Reappraisal of Dependency Length Minimization as a Linguistic Universal
A Reappraisal of Dependency Length Minimization as a Linguistic Universal Open
Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies has been to count the number …
View article: Cost of ungrammatical predictions during online sentence processing: evidence against surprisal
Cost of ungrammatical predictions during online sentence processing: evidence against surprisal Open
The surprisal metric (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) successfully predicts syntactic complexity in a large number of online studies (e.g., Demberg and Keller, 2009; Levy and Keller, 2013). Surprisal assumes a probabilistic grammar that drives the…
View article: Parsing errors in Hindi: Investigating limits to verbal prediction in an SOV language
Parsing errors in Hindi: Investigating limits to verbal prediction in an SOV language Open
The role of prediction during sentence comprehension is widely acknowledged to be very critical in SOV languages. Robust clause-final verbal prediction and its maintenance have been invoked to explain effects such as anti-locality and lack…
View article: Clause Final Verb Prediction in Hindi: Evidence for Noisy Channel Model of Communication
Clause Final Verb Prediction in Hindi: Evidence for Noisy Channel Model of Communication Open
Verbal prediction has been shown to be critical during online comprehension of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) languages. In this work we present three computational models to predict clause final verbs in Hindi given its prior arguments. The mo…
View article: Anti-locality in Hindi
Anti-locality in Hindi Open
Anti-locality effects in Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) languages are characterised by a facili-tation at the clause-final verb when the distance between the verb and its prior dependentsis increased. These effects are understood to be driven b…
View article: Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects in Hindi
Preverbal syntactic complexity leads to local coherence effects in Hindi Open
The effective use of preverbal linguistic cues to make successful clause-final verbal prediction as well as robust prediction maintenance has been argued to be a cross-linguistic generalization for SOV languages such as German and Japanese…
View article: Word Order Typology Interacts With Linguistic Complexity: A Cross‐Linguistic Corpus Study
Word Order Typology Interacts With Linguistic Complexity: A Cross‐Linguistic Corpus Study Open
Much previous work has suggested that word order preferences across languages can be explained by the dependency distance minimization constraint (Ferrer‐i Cancho, 2008, 2015; Hawkins, 1994). Consistent with this claim, corpus studies have…
View article: Target Complexity Modulates Syntactic Priming During Comprehension
Target Complexity Modulates Syntactic Priming During Comprehension Open
Syntactic priming is known to facilitate comprehension of the target sentence if the syntactic structure of the target sentence aligns with the structure of the prime (Branigan et al., 2005; Tooley and Traxler, 2010). Such a processing fac…
View article: What Determines the Order of Verbal Dependents in Hindi? Effects of Efficiency in Comprehension and Production
What Determines the Order of Verbal Dependents in Hindi? Effects of Efficiency in Comprehension and Production Open
Word order flexibility is one of the distinctive features of SOV languages. In this work, we investigate whether the order and relative distance of preverbal dependents in Hindi, an SOV language, is affected by factors motivated by efficie…
View article: Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenominal?
Are formal restrictions on crossing dependencies epiphenominal? Open
Characterizing the distribution of crossing dependencies in natural language dependency trees is a crucial task for building parsers and understanding the formal properties of human language.A number of formal restrictions on crossing depe…
View article: Can Greenbergian universals be induced from language networks?
Can Greenbergian universals be induced from language networks? Open
Language networks have been proposed to be the underlying representation for syntactic knowledge (Roelofs, 1992;Pickering and Branigan, 1998).Such networks are known to explain various word order related priming effects in psycholinguistic…
View article: Role of expectation and working memory constraints in Hindi comprehension: An eyetracking corpus analysis
Role of expectation and working memory constraints in Hindi comprehension: An eyetracking corpus analysis Open
We used the Potsdam-Allahabad Hindi eye-tracking corpus to investigate the role of word-level and sentence-level factors during sentence comprehension in Hindi. Extending previous work that used this eye-tracking data, we investigate the r…
View article: Dependency Resolution Difficulty Increases with Distance in Persian Separable Complex Predicates
Dependency Resolution Difficulty Increases with Distance in Persian Separable Complex Predicates Open
Delaying the appearance of a verb in a noun-verb dependency tends to increase processing difficulty at the verb; one explanation for this locality effect is decay and/or interference of the noun in working memory. Surprisal, an expectation…
View article: Dependency Resolution Difficulty Increases with Distance in Persian Separable Complex Predicates: Evidence for Expectation and Memory-Based Accounts
Dependency Resolution Difficulty Increases with Distance in Persian Separable Complex Predicates: Evidence for Expectation and Memory-Based Accounts Open
Delaying the appearance of a verb in a noun-verb dependency tends to increase processing difficulty at the verb; one explanation for this locality effect is decay and/or interference of the noun in working memory. Surprisal, an expectation…