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Levy, Roger – Cognition, 2008
This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic characterization of processing difficulty as the work incurred by resource reallocation during parallel, incremental, probabilistic disambiguation in sentence comprehension,…
Descriptors: Expectation, Sentences, Figurative Language, Language Processing

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