Experimental Issues in Sentence Comprehension : Complexity and Segmentation

Questions about the order of processing events during speech perception are among the most interesting and challenging in the psychology of language. Relating segmentation strategies to computational effort appears to be a possible approach to a difficult area. If we knew where processing takes place and where it is held in abeyance, we would have some basis for inferring what kinds of information are needed by the recognition system for the projection of grammatical structures. Knowing what kinds of structures are, in fact, inferred by the hearer at given points in the sentence would help us to refine our guesses about the function of specific kinds of information (e.g., acoustic, phonetic, lexical, etc.).

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