Constraint satisfaction in large language models

CL Jacobs, MC MacDonald - Language, Cognition and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Constraint satisfaction theories were prominent in the late 20th century and emphasized
continuous, rich interaction between many sources of information in a linguistic signal …

Parsing the late-closure ambiguity: While Schrödinger measured the cat escaped from the box

Z Qian, GS Dell - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
An experiment investigated the" good-enough" processing account regarding how people
parse sentences with late-closure ambiguity, such as While Anna dressed the baby who was …

Resolving syntactic–semantic conflicts: comprehension and processing patterns by deaf Chinese readers

Q Cheng, X Yan, L Yang, H Lin - Journal of Deaf Studies and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The current study combined sentence plausibility judgment and self-paced reading tasks to
examine the comprehension strategies and processing patterns of Chinese deaf individuals …

[PDF][PDF] Decoupling Language Processing from Time

B McMurray, JB Muegge, H Kim - 2024 - osf.io
Speech understanding requires listeners to map temporally unfolding speech to lexical
items. For decades there has been consensus around the principles governing this process …

A hierarchical Bayesian model for syntactic priming

W Xu, R Futrell - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15964, 2024 - arxiv.org
The effect of syntactic priming exhibits three well-documented empirical properties: the
lexical boost, the inverse frequency effect, and the asymmetrical decay. We aim to show how …

Evidence Against Syntactic Encapsulation in Large Language Models

TA McGee, IA Blank - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Transformer large language models (LLMs) perform exceptionally well across a variety of
linguistic tasks. These models represent relationships between words in a sentence via …

Probabilistic and Selectional Biases in Ambiguity Resolution during Real-time Sentence Processing

H Fujita - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive …, 2024 - escholarship.org
This study examines the influence of lexical frequency bias and selectional constraints on
the resolution of complement ambiguity during sentence processing. Some argue that in …

Hearing structure in music: An empirical inquiry into listening as representation and processing

G Cecchetti - 2024 - infoscience.epfl.ch
As a universal expression of human creativity, music is capable of conveying great subtlety
and complexity. Crucially, this complexity is not encoded in the score or in the sounds, but is …

[PDF][PDF] Multiple paths to sentence interpretation: Case studies of older adults and persons with aphasia

M Thothathiria, M Thothathiri - osf.io
It is commonly assumed that persons with aphasia (PWA) may adjust their sentence
processing due to chronic difficulty with sentence comprehension. We tested the hypothesis …