Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction
- We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better accounted for by an encoding-based model of agreement attraction, compared to a retrieval-based model. A novel methodological contribution of our study is the use of comprehension questions with open-ended responses, so that both misinterpretation of the number feature of the subject phrase and misassignment of the thematic subject role of the verb can be investigated at the same time. We find evidence for both types of misinterpretation in our study, sometimes in the same trial. However, the specific error patterns in our data are not fully consistent with any previously proposed model.
Author details: | Dario PaapeORCiDGND, Serine Avetisyan, Sol LagoORCiD, Shravan VasishthORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13019 |
ISSN: | 0364-0213 |
ISSN: | 1551-6709 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34379348 |
Title of parent work (English): | Cognitive science |
Subtitle (English): | a computational evaluation |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publishing: | Malden, Mass. |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/08/11 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2023/07/07 |
Tag: | Agreement attraction; Computational modeling; Eastern Armenian; Self-paced reading |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 8 |
Article number: | e13019 |
Number of pages: | 30 |
Funding institution: | University of Potsdam; Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship [2012-0025-EMII-EMJ]; Projekt DEAL |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |