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Crocker, Matthew W., Noortje J. Venhuizen and Harm Brouwer. 2019. Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the Interaction of World Knowledge and Linguistic Experience. Discourse Processes 56 (3) : 229–255.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

The processing trouble of each word one meets in a sentence is impacted by both previous linguistic experience and general world knowledge. This study evolves an incremental model of language comprehension that builds rich, probabilistic situation model representations. Simulations are proposed that show that linguistic experience and world knowledge are integrated in the model at the level of interpretation and combine in defining online expectations.