Naturalistic Reading Time Data Support Information Locality
Abstract
Both expectation and locality have been established as key factors in characterizing incremental sentence processing difficulty. Here we investigate the less explored question whether and how expectation and locality interact with each other using data from naturalistic reading time corpora. We found that the data support the Information Locality hypothesis: Strong expectations can enhance locality effects. We argue that future theory building in sentence processing should therefore take into consideration both expectation and locality, as well as their potential interaction.
Keywords: sentence processing, corpus analysis
How to Cite:
Hao, H., Yadav, H. & Kaiser, E., (2024) “Naturalistic Reading Time Data Support Information Locality”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 7(1), 273–274. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.2196
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