A Principled Approach to Feature Selection in Models of Sentence Processing

• Published in: Cognitive science Vol. 44; no. 12; pp. e12918 - n/a
• Main Authors: Smith, Garrett, Vasishth, Shravan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley 01.12.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Cues; Cue‐based retrieval; Embedding; Eye Movements; Information processing; Language Processing; Linguistic features; Memory; Plausibility; Reading Rate; Recall (Psychology); Semantics; Sentences; Word embeddings; Cue-based retrieval; Linguistic features; Plausibility; Word embeddings

Among theories of human language comprehension, cue‐based memory retrieval has proven to be a useful framework for understanding when and how processing difficulty arises in the resolution of long‐distance dependencies. Most previous work in this area has assumed that very general retrieval cues lik...