Wie viel Information können wir antizipieren? Zum Problem der Inkrementalität und uneingeschränkten Interaktivität beim Satzverstehen

• Authors: Jolanta Sękowska

Title variants

EN

How much data can we anticipate? Incrementality and unlimited interactivity in sentence comprehension

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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EN

This paper discusses the issue of the boundaries of incrementality in sentence-comprehension processes.The maximum incrementality, postulated as unlimited interactive sentence-comprehensi­on models, allows anticipation and prediction top-down processing, facilitating quick interpretation of the perceived linguistic input. However, it involves a substantial strain on cognitive resources, especially at the beginning of the sentence. In addition, in the case of structures with verbs placed at the end of a sentence, unlimited interactivity keeps vast knowledge resources active until the verb and its arguments are agreed.This imposes a certain order of importance on interactive models at the same time assigned to the ongoing top-down processing, thus limiting incrementality, interactivity and the ability to anticipate.

Keywords

EN

sentence comprehension; sentence processing; incrementality; anticipation; interactivity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 9-20

Dates

published

2018-08-21

Contributors

author

Jolanta Sękowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1427-9665.13.02