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Direct linkHale, John – Cognitive Science, 2006
A word-by-word human sentence processing complexity metric is presented. This metric formalizes the intuition that comprehenders have more trouble on words contributing larger amounts of information about the syntactic structure of the sentence as a whole. The formalization is in terms of the conditional entropy of grammatical continuations, given…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Grammar, Prediction
