Modeling sentence processing difficulty with a conditional probability calculator
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We present the conditional probability calculator CCPC for predicting word-by-word processing difficulties in human sentence comprehension. This system, in conjunction with weighted grammars and the linking hypothesis Entropy Reduction (Hale, 2006), derives the subject-object asymmetry in Italian relative clauses, including the animacy effect of head nouns.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014