A hybrid model of human sentence processing: Parsing right-branching, center-embedded and cross-serial dependencies
Theo Vosse, Gerard Kempen · Max Planck Digital Library · 1991
A new cognitive architecture for the syntactic aspects of human sentence processing (the Unification Space) is tested against experimental data from human subjects.The data, originally collected by Bach, Brown and Marslen-Wilson (1986), concern comprehensibility ratings for three types of verb dependency constructions in Dutch and German.A satisfactory fit is obtained between comprehensibility data and parsability scores in the model.