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What and Who
Prediction in Human Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye-Movements
Yuki Kamide
Dept. of Psychology University of York
Computerlinguistisches Kolloquium
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4
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Date, Time and Location
Thursday, 19 April 2001
16:00
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17.3 - Computerlinguistik
Seminarraum
Saarbrücken
Abstract
This talk is concerned with `prediction' processes in human sentence
processing. By `prediction', we mean that preceding linguistic items
anticipate or narrow down a class of potential subsequent items even
before the onset of the subsequent items during parsing. Such
operations are not particularly new in the psycholinguistic or
computational literature: numerous theories have accommodated a
mechanism which enables the parser to expect the next items, often
using syntactic knowledge based on phrase structure grammar.
In this talk, we will report three eye-tracking experiments with a
`visual world' paradigm in which subjects looked at a picture on a
computer screen, as well as listened to a concurrent auditory sentence
related to the picture. The technique enables us to `timelock' eye
movements relative to certain points of the sentence. In our
experiments, we investigate different types of constraints which drive
prediction: selectional restrictions of verbs (Expt 1), combination of
subject constraints and selectional restrictions (Expt 2), and
syntactic information (case-marking information) (Expt 3). We also
explore the question of whether constituents before the verb can be
used for prediction.
If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact:
Christoph Scheepers
This term's colloquium program can be found at:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/
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Uwe Brahm, 04/12/2007 12:05 -- Created document.