Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian separable complex predicates: Implications for expectation and memory-based accounts
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-based account, predicts that delaying the appearance of a ve...
Main Authors: | Molood Sadat eSafavi, Samar eHusain, Shravan eVasishth |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00403/full |
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