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    "title": "Information Locality in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese",
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    "abstract": "In this paper, we report three reading time (RT) experiments (one using self-paced reading and two using A-Maze) that tested the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of classifier-noun dependencies in Mandarin Chinese (MC). We leveraged prenominal relative clauses and the contrast between general and specific classifiers in MC, which offered a good testing ground for existing theories of sentence processing. Results from the A-Maze experiments showed both locality and expectation effects. More importantly, we observed an interaction between locality and expectation in the way of Information Locality (Futrell, 2019; Futrell, Gibson, & Levy, 2020): Expectation-driven facilitation was highly constrained by locality effects. To capture the results, we implemented a resource-rational Lossy-Context Surprisal model (Hahn et al., 2022) for MC, which successfully replicated the key patterns in the A-Maze experiments.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Language understanding; Predictive Processing; Semantics; Syntax; Computational Modeling; Large Language Models"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Hailin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hao",
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            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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            "first_name": "Yang",
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            "last_name": "Yang",
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            "institution": "Guangdong University of Foreign Studies",
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            "first_name": "Michael",
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            "last_name": "Hahn",
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            "institution": "Saarland University",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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