Sidharth Ranjan
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View article: Interference Predicts Locality: Evidence from an SOV Language
Interference Predicts Locality: Evidence from an SOV Language Open
Locality and Interference are two mechanisms which are attested to drive sentence comprehension. However, the relationship between them remains unclear---are they alternative explanations or do they operate independently? To answer this qu…
View article: Does Dependency Locality Predict Non-canonical Word Order in Hindi?
Does Dependency Locality Predict Non-canonical Word Order in Hindi? Open
Previous work has shown that isolated non-canonical sentences with Object-before-Subject (OSV) order are initially harder to process than their canonical counterparts with Subject-before-Object (SOV) order. Although this difficulty diminis…
View article: Work Smarter...Not Harder: Efficient Minimization of Dependency Length in SOV Languages
Work Smarter...Not Harder: Efficient Minimization of Dependency Length in SOV Languages Open
Dependency length minimization is a universally observed quantitative property of natural languages. However, the extent of dependency length minimization, and the cognitive mechanisms through which the language processor achieves this min…
View article: A bounded rationality account of dependency length minimization in Hindi
A bounded rationality account of dependency length minimization in Hindi Open
The principle of DEPENDENCY LENGTH MINIMIZATION, which seeks to keep syntactically related words close in a sentence, is thought to universally shape the structure of human languages for effective communication. However, the extent to whic…
View article: Dual Mechanism Priming Effects in Hindi Word Order
Dual Mechanism Priming Effects in Hindi Word Order Open
Word order choices during sentence production can be primed by preceding sentences. In this work, we test the DUAL MECHANISM hypothesis that priming is driven by multiple different sources. Using a Hindi corpus of text productions, we mode…
View article: Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order
Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order Open
We test the hypothesis that discourse predictability influences Hindi syntactic choice. While prior work has shown that a number of factors (e.g., information status, dependency length, and syntactic surprisal) influence Hindi word order p…
View article: Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order
Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order Open
We test the hypothesis that discourse predictability influences Hindi syntactic choice. While prior work has shown that a number of factors (e.g., information status, dependency length, and syntactic surprisal) influence Hindi word order p…
View article: Locality and Expectation Effects in Hindi Preverbal Constituent Ordering
Locality and Expectation Effects in Hindi Preverbal Constituent Ordering Open
We investigate the relative impact of two influential theories of language comprehension, viz., Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson 2000; DLT) and Surprisal Theory (Hale 2001, Levy 2008), on preverbal constituent ordering in Hindi, a predom…
View article: A Simple Approach to Classify Fictional and Non-Fictional Genres
A Simple Approach to Classify Fictional and Non-Fictional Genres Open
In this work, we deploy a logistic regression classifier to ascertain whether a given document belongs to the fiction or non-fiction genre. For genre identification, previous work had proposed three classes of features, viz., low-level (ch…
View article: Surprisal and Interference Effects of Case Markers in
Surprisal and Interference Effects of Case Markers in Open
Based on the Production-Distribution-Comprehension (PDC) account of language processing, we formulate two distinct hypotheses about case marking, word order choices and processing in Hindi. Our first hypothesis is that Hindi tends to optim…