Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Conflicting Constraints in Resource-Adaptive Language Comprehension

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes

Part of the book series: Cognitive Technologies ((COGTECH))

  • 755 Accesses

Abstract

The primary goal of psycholinguistic research is to understand the architectures and mechanisms that underlie human language comprehension and production. This entails an understanding of how linguistic knowledge is represented and organized in the brain and a theory of how that knowledge is accessed when we use language. Research has traditionally emphasized purely linguistic aspects of on-line comprehension, such as the influence of lexical, syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints, and their tim -course. It has become increasingly clear, however, that nonlinguistic information, such as the visual environment, are also actively exploited by situated language comprehenders.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Altmann, G., Garnham, A., Dennis, Y. Avoiding the garden path: Eye movements in context. Journal of Memory and Language, 31:685–712 (1992).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Altmann, G.T.M., Kamide, Y. Incremental interpretation at verbs: Restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Cognition, 73:247–264 (1999).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Baddeley, A.D. Working Memory. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press (1986).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Branigan, H., Pickering, M., Liversedge, S. Syntactic priming: investigating the mental representation of language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24:489–506 (1995).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Chater, N., Crocker, M.W., Pickering, M. The rational analysis of inquiry: The case for parsing. In N. Chater, M. Oaksford (Eds.), Rational Analysis of Cognition (pp. 441–468). Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Crocker, M., Keller, F. Probabilistic grammars as models of gradience in language processing. In G. Fanselow et al. (Ed.), Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives (pp. 227–245). Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press (2006).

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  7. Crocker, M.W. Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language. Dordrecht: Kluwer (1996).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Crocker, M.W. Rational models of comprehension: Addressing the performance paradox. In A. Cutler (Ed.), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones (pp. 363–380). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2005).

    Google Scholar 

  9. Crocker, M.W., Brants, T. Wide-coverage probabilistic sentence processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29(6):647–669 (2000).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Dahan, D., Magnuson, J., Tanenhaus, M. Time course of frequency effects in spoken-word recognition: Evidence from eye movements. Cognitive Psychology, 42:361–367 (2001).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Elman, J.L. Finding structure in time. Cognition Science, 14(2):179–211 (1990).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Ferretti, T., McRae, K., Hatherell, A. Integrating verbs, situation schemas, and thematic role concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 44:516–547 (2001).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Frazier, L., Fodor, J. The sausage machine: A new two-stage parsing model. Cognition, 6:291–325 (1978).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Garnsey, S., Pearlmutter, N., Myers, E., Lotocky, M. The contribution of verb bias and plausibility to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 37:58–93 (1997).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Gibson, E. Linguistic complexity: Locality of syntactic dependencies. Cognition, 68:1–76 (1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Grice, M., Baumann, S. Deutsche intonation und GToBI. Linguistische Berichte, 191:267–298 (2002).

    Google Scholar 

  17. Hemforth, B. Kognitives Parsing: Repräsentation und Verarbeitung Sprachlichen Wissens. Sankt Augustin: Infix-Verlag (1993).

    Google Scholar 

  18. Kamide, Y., Scheepers, C., Altmann, G. Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: Cross-linguistic evidence from German and English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32:37–55 (2003).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Kjeelgaard, M., Speer, S. Prosodic facilitation and interference in the resolution of temporary syntactic closure ambiguity. Journal of Memory and Language, 40:153–194 (1999).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M. The coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge: Evidence from eye tracking. Cognitive Science, 30:481–529 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M., Scheepers, C., Pickering, M. The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: Evidence from eye movements in depicted events. Cognition, 95:95–127 (2005).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Knoeferle, P., Crocker, M.W. The influence of recent scene events on spoken comprehension: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language (Special Issue on Language-Vision Interaction), 57(2):519–543 (2007).

    Google Scholar 

  23. Lewis, R.L., Vasishth, S., Dyke, J.A.V. Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10:447–454 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Marslen-Wilson, W. Linguistic structure and speech shadowing at very short latencies. Nature, 244:522–523 (1973).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Marslen-Wilson, W. Activation, competition, and frequency in lexical access. In G. Altmann (ed.), Cognitive Models of Speech Processing (pp. 148–172). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1990).

    Google Scholar 

  26. Mayberry, M., Crocker, M., Knoeferle, P.A connectionist model of the coordinated interplay of scene, utterance, and world knowledge. In 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada (2006).

    Google Scholar 

  27. McRae, K., Spivey-Knowlton, M., Tanenhaus, M. Modeling the influence of thematic fit (and other constraints) in on-line sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 38:283–312 (1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Meyer, D., Schvaneveldt, R. Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 90:227–234 (1971).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  29. Muckel, S., Scheepers, C., Crocker, M., Muller, K. Anticipating German particle verb meanings: Effects of lexical frequency and plausibility. In 8th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Tenerife, Spain (2002).

    Google Scholar 

  30. Pickering, M., Traxler, M., Crocker, M. Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: Evidence against likelihood. Journal of Memory and Language, 43:447–475 (2000).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  31. Rayner, K., Carlson, M., Frazier, L. The interaction of syntax and semantics during sentence processing. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22:358–374 (1983).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Rayner, K., Raney, G.E. Eye movement control in reading and visual search effects of word frequency. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3:245–248 (1996).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Sedivy, J.C., Tanenhaus, M.K., Chambers, C.G., Carlson, G.N. Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation. Cognition, 71:109–148 (1999).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Swets, B., Desmet, T., Clifton, C., Ferreira, F. Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced reading. Memory & Cognition, 36:201–216 (2008).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  35. Tanenhaus, M.K., Spivey-Knowlton, M.J., Eberhard, K.M., Sedivy, J.C. Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. Science, 268:1632–1634 (1995).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  36. Weber, A., Crocker, M. Top-down anticipation versus bottom-up lexical access: Which dominates eye movements in visual scenes? In 19th Annual CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. New York City, New York (2006).

    Google Scholar 

  37. Weber, A., Crocker, M. The influence of the scene on linguistic expectations: Evidence from cross-modal priming in visual worlds. In 20th Annual CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. New York City, New York (2007).

    Google Scholar 

  38. Weber, A., Grice, M., Crocker, M. The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: A study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition, 99:B63–B72 (2006).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  39. Weber, A., Müller, K. Word order variation in German main clauses: A corpus analysis. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 71–77). Geneva (2004).

    Google Scholar 

  40. Weber, A., Neu, J. Assignment of grammatical functions in discourse context and word-order ambiguity resolution. In 16th Annual CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. Boston, Massachusetts (2003).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Andrea Weber

  2. Department of Computational Linguistics & Phonetics, Saarland University, 66123, Saarbrucken, Germany

    Matthew W. Crocker

  3. Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Pia Knoeferle

Authors
  1. Andrea Weber
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Matthew W. Crocker
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Pia Knoeferle
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Andrea Weber .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Inst. Computerlinguistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 66041, Germany

    Matthew W. Crocker

  2. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für, Künstliche Intelligenz, Universität des Saarlandes, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Saarbrücken, 66123, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Weber, A., Crocker, M.W., Knoeferle, P. (2010). Conflicting Constraints in Resource-Adaptive Language Comprehension. In: Crocker, M., Siekmann, J. (eds) Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89408-7_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89408-7_7

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-89407-0

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-89408-7

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation