Is there syntactic adaptation in language comprehension?

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 18-26

  Fine, Alex B ^a   Qian, Ting ^a   Jaeger, T Florian ^a   Jacobs, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN; BEHAVIORAL DATA; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85065486387     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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