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    "pk": 26130,
    "title": "Structure-sensitive Noise Inference: Comprehenders Expect Exchange Errors",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Previous research has found that comprehenders are willingto adopt non-literal interpretations of sentences whose literalreading is unlikely. Several studies found evidence that com-prehenders decide whether or not a given utterance should betaken at face value in accordance with principles of Bayesianrationality, by weighing the prior probability of potential inter-pretations against the degree to which they are (in)consistentwith the literal form of the utterance. While all of these re-sults are consistent with string-edit noise models, many errorprocesses are known to be sensitive to the underlying linguis-tic structure of the intended utterance. Here, we explore thecase of exchange errors and provide experimental evidencethat comprehenders’ noise model is structure-sensitive. Ourresults add further support to the noisy-channel theory of lan-guage comprehension, extend the set of known noise opera-tions to include positional exchanges, and show that compre-henders’ noise models are well-adapted to structure-sensitivesources of signal corruption during communication.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "rational analysis; noisy-channel comprehension;non-literal interpretation;"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Till",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Poppels",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, San Diego",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Roger",
            "middle_name": "P.",
            "last_name": "Levy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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