Parsing costs as predictors of reading difficulty: An evaluation using the Potsdam Sentence Corpus

• Main Authors: Marisa Ferrara Boston (Author), John Hale (Author), Reinhold Kliegl (Author), Umesh Patil (Author), Shravan Vasishth (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bern Open Publishing, 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The surprisal of a word on a probabilistic grammar constitutes a promising complexity metric for human sentence comprehension difficulty. Using two different grammar types, surprisal is shown to have an effect on fixation durations and regression probabilities in a sample of German readers' eye...