Argument-Head Distance and Processing Complexity: Explaining both Locality and Antilocality Effects

By Shravan Vasishth, Richard L. Lewis. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Causal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models (2021, neutral): “We suspect that adverbs are acting as cues that a verb will soon appear, thus increasing the probability of both the correct and incorrect verb, but increasing that of the correct verb more (for similar findings in human sentence processing, see (Vasishth and Lewis, 2006)).”
Data from eye-tracking corpora as evidence for theories of syntactic processing complexity. (2008, unknown): “The second type of cost corresponds to anti-locality effects which have been reported recently (Konieczny, 2000; Vasishth & Lewis, 2006).”
Does gender make a difference? Comparing the effect of gender on children's comprehension of relative clauses in Hebrew and Italian (2012, methodology): “A similar approach, advocated by Lewis and Vasishth (2005) and Vasishth and Lewis (2006) suggests a similarity-based retrieval interference account, according to which activation, for example in relative clauses, can be attenuated by similarity: the more items involved that are mutually similar…”
Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis (2017, methodology): “Potential confounds Wagers et al. (2009) have claimed that in terms of number attraction, an effect is rather expected when using plural distractors compared to singular distractors. This difference, the socalled number asymmetry, has been attributed to the morphological markedness of English plural”
The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability (2018, result): “This resolves a potentially serious confound in such studies; many of the previous studies (Grodner & Gibson, 2005; Konieczny, 2000; Vasishth & Lewis, 2006) had the verb further downstream in the sentence whenever an additional intervener was present.”
Parsimonious Mixed Models (2015, background): “Although hierarchical linear models have been in existence for decades, their adoption in areas like psychology and linguistics became more widespread in areas like linguistics and psychology after Pinheiro and Bates (2000) appeared (Vasishth, 2003; Vasishth and Lewis, 2006; Baayen et al., 2008; Obe”
A test of the relation between working-memory capacity and syntactic island effects (2012, background): “Some theories of filler-gap dependency completion reject the assumption of the resource-limitation theory that maintenance of the wh-word is required, or that it is a key predictor of processing difficulty (Fodor 1978, McElree et al. 2003, Vasishth and Lewis 2006, Wagers 2012).”
Expectation-based syntactic comprehension. (2008, background): “This effect is also unpredicted by a theory of anti-locality effects proposed Vasishth and Lewis (2006), under which a governing head can be primed by preceding constituents that are (i) its dependents, or (ii) dependents of its dependents; the extra PPs in (6) are neither.”
Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean (2010, background): “…filler is viewed as facilitatory rather than inhibitory, as the context provided by intervening material can help to sharpen the expectation of an upcoming word with regard to its location and identity (Konieczny 2000, Grodner & Gibson 2005, Vasishth & Lewis 2006, Jaeger et al. 2008, Levy 2008).”
The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing (2015, methodology): “An SR advantage has been reported by Wu (2009), Vasishth et al.”
Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English (2010, methodology): “In the present study we use the dative alternation to compare syntactic predictive behavior of speakers of Australian and American (United States) varieties of English.”
Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. (2016, unknown): “…into the previous equation: Sk+1 = − log P (w1...wk+1) P (w1...wk) = log ∑ T P (T,w1...wk)− log ∑ T P (T,w1...wk+1) (2) In addition to locality effects, anti-locality effects have been discussed in the sentence comprehension literature on German (Konieczny 2000) and Hindi (Vasishth & Lewis 2006).”