Syntactic category disambiguation within an architecture of human language processing
Peter Baumann · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2013
Syntactic category ambiguities are very frequent in natural languages, and all architectures of language processing need a mechanism for disambiguating syntactic category ambiguities.Corley and Crocker (2000) suggested that syntactic category disambiguation can be assigned its own module within a modular architecture.We will show that the model defined by Corley and Crocker can account for a considerable amount of variance in reading times of naturally occurring texts.In addition, we provide evidence that syntactic category disambiguation may be independent of syntactic top-down expectations, emphasizing the important role of bottom-up processes within an architecture of human language processing.