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Meilin Zhan; Sihan Chen; Roger Levy; Jiayi Lu; Edward Gibson – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous work has shown that English native speakers interpret sentences as predicted by a noisy-channel model: They integrate both the real-world plausibility of the meaning--the prior--and the likelihood that the intended sentence may be corrupted into the perceived sentence. In this study, we test the noisy-channel model in Mandarin Chinese, a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Sentence Structure