New paper out in Cognitive Science! We analyzed various predictors of local ambiguity resolution on a heterogeneous set of garden-path sentences, namely surprisal, frequency, plausibility and cloze scores (measuring the likelihood of misanalysis of the ambiguous region). 1/2
Cloze, Frequency, Surprisal, or Plausibility? A Comparative Analysis of Predictors for Local Ambiguity Resolution
This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of garden-path sentences by examining the influence of verb/structural bias, cloze probability, surprisal, and plausibility....
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