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| author | Clark, Thomas Hikaru Levy, Roger Gibson, Edward |
| author_facet | Clark, Thomas Hikaru Levy, Roger Gibson, Edward |
| contents | A key question in psycholinguistics is how inferences about the meaning of linguistic input unfold incrementally a comprehender's mind. In this work, we study reading dynamics for ``noisy-channel garden-path'' sentences, which temporarily appear well-formed but feature late-appearing violations of expectation that can be resolved not by inferring an alternative syntactic structure, but by inferring the presence of an error. We find evidence for targeted regressions -- eye movements towards regions that are promising loci of possible errors in light of later-arriving information, showing patterns consistent with the posterior inferences of a model of noisy-channel processing with reanalysis. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of noisy-channel language comprehension and information-theoretic explanations of reading dynamics. |
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| spellingShingle | Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of "noisy-channel garden-path" sentences Clark, Thomas Hikaru Levy, Roger Gibson, Edward Computation and Language A key question in psycholinguistics is how inferences about the meaning of linguistic input unfold incrementally a comprehender's mind. In this work, we study reading dynamics for ``noisy-channel garden-path'' sentences, which temporarily appear well-formed but feature late-appearing violations of expectation that can be resolved not by inferring an alternative syntactic structure, but by inferring the presence of an error. We find evidence for targeted regressions -- eye movements towards regions that are promising loci of possible errors in light of later-arriving information, showing patterns consistent with the posterior inferences of a model of noisy-channel processing with reanalysis. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of noisy-channel language comprehension and information-theoretic explanations of reading dynamics. |
| title | Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of "noisy-channel garden-path" sentences |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18563 |