The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity.

By Edward Gibson. 2000

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Structure-to-Text Generation with Self-Training, Acceptability Classifiers and Context-Conditioning for the GEM Shared Task (2021, background): “Given the tendency to put heavier constituents towards the end of a sentence in English (Hawkins, 1994; Gibson, 2000; Temperley, 2007; Rajkumar et al., 2016), we additionally sorted siblings by increasing subtree depth, breaking ties by sorting alphabetically on predicate names.”
Dependency Distance as a Metric of Language Comprehension Difficulty (2008, background): “Gibson (2000) proposes a distance-based theory of linguistic complexity - the Dependency Locality Theory (DLT).”
Language, music, and the brain: a resource-sharing framework (2011, neutral): “dependency. According to Dependency Locality Theory ( Gibson, 1998; 2000 ), this”
Locality and Accessibility in Wh-Questions (2007, methodology): “Locality-based processing theories (e.g. Gibson 2000) predict that an increase in distance between filler and gap (measured in new discourse referents) makes wh-dependencies harder to process.”
READING-TIME EVIDENCE FOR INTERMEDIATE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN LONG-DISTANCE DEPENDENCIES (2004, methodology): “…that they tested were all locally ambiguous, with the consequence that the effects that they observed can be independently accounted for in terms of ambiguity-resolution preferences, such as the Minimal Chain Principle (De Vincenzi 1991) or the dependency locality theory (DLT; Gibson 1998, 2000).”
The extended argument dependency model: a neurocognitive approach to sentence comprehension across languages. (2006, neutral): “…(across languages) can be derived within several existing models such as Gibson’s syntactic prediction locality theory/dependency locality theory (Gibson, 1998, 2000), models of filler-gap dependency (Crocker, 1994; de Vincenzi, 1991; Frazier & Flores d’Arcais, 1989), and nonlexicalist…”
Online Syntactic Storage Costs in Sentence Comprehension. (2005, result): “This demonstrates the difficulty of the RC relative to the SC, plausibly because of the additional integration that is required here for the RC (the object position of the verb back to the relative pronoun) as compared to the SC (Gibson, 1998, 2000).”
Data from eye-tracking corpora as evidence for theories of syntactic processing complexity. (2008, methodology): “One such theory is Dependency Locality Theory (DLT), proposed by Gibson (1998, 2000).”
The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability (2018, background): “One interesting suggestion from this 100-participant study is that the locality effect that is predicted by account such as the Dependency Locality Theory (Gibson, 2000) may have some weak support.”
An Activation-Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval (2005, methodology): “Note that the OR-OR construction is the notoriously difficult classic double center-embedding, and McElree et al. (2003) suggest that the inflated OR-OR times result from additional recovery times from misparsing this construction and do not provide a clean estimate of retrieval times.”
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review (2010, background): “Although there seems to be a general cross-linguistic locality preference for constituents to be attached to more recent material (Frazier & Clifton, 1998 ; Gibson, 2000 ), globally ambiguous sentences like the one below result in different preferences in different languages.”
The nature of generalization in language (2009, background): “We know that there is an extra processing load involved when arguments appear in displaced positions relative to their canonical expression (cf. Gibson 2000; Gibson et al. 2005; Kitagawa and Fodor 2003; Kluender 1998; Kluender and Kutas 1993).”
Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. (2016, methodology): “This section provides detailed background on Dependency Locality Theory (DLT; Gibson 1998; 2000) and Surprisal Theory (Hale 2001, Levy 2008), two influential theories of sentence processing that we use in this work.”