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Encoding interference effects support self-organized sentence processing |
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| Published in | Cognitive Psychology. 2021, vol. 124, p. 101356 | |
| Abstract | According to cue-based retrieval theories of sentence comprehension, establishing the syntactic dependency between a verb and the grammatical subject is susceptible to interference from other noun phrases in the sentence. At the verb, the subject must be retrieved from memory, but non-subject nouns that are similar on dimensions that are relevant to subject-verb agreement, like number marking, can make the retrieval more difficult. However, cue-based retrieval models fail to account for a class of interference effects, conventionally called “encoding interference,” that cannot be due to retrieval interference. In this paper, we implement a self-organized sentence processing model that provides a more parsimonious explanation of encoding interference effects than otherwise reasonable extensions that could be made to the cue-based retrieval approach. We first also present new behavioral evidence for encoding interference using a semantic similarity manipulation in two self-paced reading studies of subject-verb number agreement. The results of these experiments are more compatible with the self-organizing account. We argue that self-organization, which reduces all parsing to fallible feature match optimization and makes no a priori distinction between encoding and retrieval, can provide a unifying approach to similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension. | |
| Keywords | Sentence comprehension — Encoding interference — Semantic similarity — Agreement attraction — Dynamical systems models — Self-organized sentence processing | |
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Article (Published version) (979 Kb) - Free access Other version: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010028520300852 |
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| Research group | Développement du langage et cognition | |
| Citation (ISO format) | SMITH, Garrett, FRANCK, Julie, TABOR, Whitney. Encoding interference effects support self-organized sentence processing. In: Cognitive Psychology, 2021, vol. 124, p. 101356. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101356 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:149705 |
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