language comprehension

Question 1

what is parsing?

Answer 1

generating deep structure based on the surface structure

Question 2

Garden path model

Answer 2

minimal attachment = syntactical structure that has the smallest amount of nodes us prefered

Question 3

support for minimal attachment

Answer 3

Longer fixations for the second = evidence for more difficult processing

Question 4

support for late closure

Answer 4

Longer fixations and boggling on word seems in the second sentence

Question 5

Constraint based model

Answer 5

Connectionist model of sentence comprehension

Question 6

what are the strenghts of the constraint based model?

Answer 6

• using all relevant information seems sensible
  predicts flexibility in comprehension

Question 7

what are the weaknesses of constraint based model?

Answer 7

• predictions are general rather than precise

Question 8

predictions of the Garden path model?

Answer 8

All sentences are globally ambiguous syntactically so they should take the same time to process

Question 9

predicitions of the Constraint based model?

Answer 9

For the sentences that are semantically constrained (2 & 3 ) it should be easier to choose the preferred interpretation, so they should be read faster than the unconstrained sentence

Question 10

predictions for the unrestricted race model?

Answer 10

Sentence 1 should be read fastest as either of the two interpretations can be picked.

Question 11

what does the unrestricted race model do?

Answer 11

Combines best elements of the Garden-path and the Constraint based model

Semantic and syntactic information are used to identify a syntactic structure

Question 12

what is the prediction model?

Answer 12

Two components Latent semantic analysis component
Word meaning based on their relations with other words