{"pk":49918,"title":"Modeling Cue-Based Retrieval and Prediction – One Morpheme at a Time","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This work proposes an extension to the cue-based retrieval\ntheory of sentence processing: memory retrieval and predic-\ntion processes during sentence comprehension take place at the\nmorpheme level instead of at the word level. We illustrate this\nproposal by extending an existing cue-based retrieval model\nfrom word-level to morpheme-level processing, and show that\nour model better captures the interactions between memory re-\ntrieval and predictive processing. Specifically, we extend the\nmodel reported in Patil and Lago (2021), which accounted for\nthe interaction between retrieval and prediction during the pro-\ncessing of German possessive pronouns, but failed to general-\nize to structures involving determiners (Oltrogge, Ver´ıssimo,\nPatil, & Lago, accepted). Our results show that modeling at\nthe morpheme level captures retrieval-prediction interactions\nmore precisely. The model successfully predicts the pattern\nof prediction onsets across German possessive pronouns and\ndeterminers. The proposed morpheme-by-morpheme model is\nfurther supported by psycholinguistic evidence suggesting that\nhumans naturally decompose words into their constituent mor-\nphemes","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Language Comprehension; Memory; Morphology; Predictive Processing; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s15t489","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elise","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oltrogge","name_suffix":"","institution":"Goethe University Frankfurt","department":""},{"first_name":"Umesh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Patil","name_suffix":"","institution":"t2k GmbH","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49918/galley/37880/download/"}]}