The relationship between the frequency and the processing complexity of linguistic structure

被引：47

作者：

Gibson, E ^{[1
]}

Schutze, CT ^{[1
]}

Salomon, A ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] MIT,DEPT LINGUST & PHILOSOPHY,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139

来源：

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH | 1996年 / 25卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1007/BF01708420

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

In this paper the relative frequencies of the possible resolutions of ambiguities involving noun phrase attachment sites are compared to the results of off-line psycholinguistic measurements of syntactic complexity. A lack of correlation between the two is observed. It is therefore argued that the comprehension system is distinct from what is driving the frequencies in the corpora. A production heuristic separate from the comprehension system is proposed to account for the observed frequencies.

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页码：59 / 92

页数：34

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