{"pk":27016,"title":"Modelling dependency completion in sentence comprehensionas a Bayesian hierarchical mixture process:A case study involving Chinese relative clauses","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We present a case-study demonstrating the usefulness ofBayesian hierarchical mixture modelling for investigating cog-nitive processes. In sentence comprehension, it is widely as-sumed that the distance between linguistic co-dependents af-fects the latency of dependency resolution: the longer thedistance, the longer the retrieval time (the distance-based ac-count). An alternative theory, direct-access, assumes that re-trieval times are a mixture of two distributions: one distribu-tion represents successful retrievals (these are independent ofdependency distance) and the other represents an initial failureto retrieve the correct dependent, followed by a reanalysis thatleads to successful retrieval. We implement both models asBayesian hierarchical models and show that the direct-accessmodel explains Chinese relative clause reading time data betterthan the distance account.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Bayesian Hierarchical Finite Mixture Models;Psycholinguistics; Sentence Comprehension; Chinese RelativeClauses; Direct-Access Model; K-fold Cross-Validation"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cq47820","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shravan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vasishth","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Potsdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Nicolas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chopin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’administration  ́economique","department":""},{"first_name":"Robin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ryder","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universit ́e Paris-Dauphine","department":""},{"first_name":"Bruno","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nicenboim","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Potsdam,","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27016/galley/16652/download/"}]}