expectation-based processing

A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German compounds in predictive contexts
The Uniform Information Density hypothesis (UID) predicts that lexical choice between long and short word forms depends on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Vera Demberg
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A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German compounds in predictive contexts
Interaction of Script Knowledge and Temporal Discourse Cues in a Visual World Study
There is now a well-established literature showing that people anticipate upcoming concepts and words during language processing. …
Alessandra Zarcone, Vera Demberg
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Interaction of Script Knowledge and Temporal Discourse Cues in a Visual World Study
Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
Complement coercion (begin a book → reading) involves a type clash between an event-selecting verb and an entity-denoting object, …
Alessandra Zarcone, Ken McRae, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó
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Complement Coercion: The Joint Effects of Type and Typicality
Script knowledge and event order in a visual world paradigm study
Habitual knowledge of everyday activities (e.g. going to a restaurant) plays a key role in our interaction with the environment and in …
Alessandra Zarcone, Vera Demberg
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Script knowledge and event order in a visual world paradigm study
Salience and Attention in Surprisal-Based Accounts of Language Processing
The notion of salience has been singled out as the explanatory factor for a diverse range of linguistic phenomena. In particular, …
Alessandra Zarcone, Marten van Schijndel, Jorrig Vogels, Vera Demberg
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Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Same same but different: Type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion
Event Knowledge and Models of Logical Metonymy Interpretation
During language understanding, people do not only rely on what they read or hear, but they also exploit implicit information. For …
Alessandra Zarcone
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Type and Thematic Fit in Logical Metonymy
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition
Abstract Logical metonymy resolution (begin a book → begin reading a book or begin writing a book) has traditionally been explained …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci
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Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition
Logical metonymy: Disentangling object type and thematic fit
We aim to model the results from a self-paced reading experiment, which tested the effect of semantic type clash and typicality on the …
Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó
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