{"pk":32339,"title":"Architecture and Experience in Sentence Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Models of the human sentence processing mechanism have traditionally appealed to innate architectural restrictions to explain observed patterns of behavior. Recently, a number of proposcds have instead emphasized the role of linguistic experience in guiding sentence interpretation, suggesting that various frequency measures play a crucial role in ambiguity resolution. What has been lacking thus far is a detailed analysis of the linguistic and computational properties that could explain why those particular aspects of experience are effective in shaping behavior. In this paper, we present a linguistic analysis that reveals restrictions on the representational ability of the sentence processor, explaining its sensitivity to particular factors in the linguistic environment. The proposal receives strong support from a large-scale corpus analysis.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53j2t766","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Suzanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stevenson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Computational Linguistics Research Group, Freiburg University","department":""},{"first_name":"Paola","middle_name":"","last_name":"Merlo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cognitive Science and Engineering, University of Groningen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32339/galley/23404/download/"}]}