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  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Language comprehension involves inferring meaning from variable input.
  • Syntactic processing (parsing) faces challenges from speaker and genre variability.
  • Syntactic expectations are crucial for efficient language understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if language comprehenders adapt to syntactic statistics of novel linguistic environments.
  • To investigate how repeated exposure to syntactic ambiguities influences readers' expectations.
  • To determine if comprehenders can overcome processing disadvantages caused by mismatched expectations.

Main Methods:

  • Two self-paced reading experiments.
  • Utilized sentences with temporary syntactic ambiguities (garden path sentences).
  • Manipulated the frequency of specific syntactic structures to alter local statistics.

Main Results:

  • Readers rapidly adapted syntactic expectations to local statistics.
  • Exposure to a priori unexpected structures reduced processing disadvantage.
  • Exposure to a priori expected structures led to processing disadvantage in novel environments.

Conclusions:

  • Comprehenders dynamically adjust syntactic expectations based on environmental statistics.
  • Rapid adaptation of expectations facilitates overcoming processing challenges in new linguistic contexts.
  • Findings integrate expectation-based processing, syntactic priming, and statistical learning insights.