A probabilistic corpus-based model of syntactic parallelism

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 326-344

  Dubey, Amit ^a   Keller, Frank ^a   Sturt, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive architectures; Corpora; Probabilistic grammars; Syntactic parallelism; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COORDINATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 56349096033     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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