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Direct Evidence of Memory Retrieval as a Source of Difficulty in Non-Local Dependencies in Language
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Fedorenko, Evelina; Woodbury, Rebecca; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2013
Linguistic dependencies between non-adjacent words have been shown to cause comprehension difficulty, compared with local dependencies. According to one class of sentence comprehension accounts, non-local dependencies are difficult because they require the retrieval of the first dependent from memory when the second dependent is encountered.…
Descriptors: Memory, Task Analysis, Sentences, Language Processing