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Publication Date: 2021-Aug
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Modeling Misretrieval and Feature Substitution in Agreement Attraction: A Computational Evaluation
Paape, Dario; Avetisyan, Serine; Lago, Sol; Vasishth, Shravan
Cognitive Science, v45 n8 e13019 Aug 2021
We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better accounted for by an encoding-based model of agreement attraction, compared to a retrieval-based model. A novel methodological contribution of our study is the use of comprehension questions with open-ended responses, so that both misinterpretation of the number feature of the subject phrase and misassignment of the thematic subject role of the verb can be investigated at the same time. We find evidence for both types of misinterpretation in our study, sometimes in the same trial. However, the specific error patterns in our data are not fully consistent with any previously proposed model.
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Grammar, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Phrase Structure, Error Patterns, Models, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages)
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Language: English
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