The Influence of Visual Uncertainty on Word Surprisal and Processing Effort.

ABSTRACT: A word's predictability or surprisal, as determined by cloze probabilities or language models (Frank, 2013) is related to processing effort, in that less expected words take more effort to process (Hale, 2001; Lau et al., 2013). A word's surprisal, however, may also be influenced by the non-linguistic context, such as visual cues: In the visual world paradigm (VWP), anticipatory eye movements suggest that listeners exploit the scene to predict what will be mentioned next (Altmann and Kamide, 1999). How visual context affects surprisal and processing effort, however, remains unclear. Here, we present a series of four studies providing evidence on how visually-determined probabilistic expectations for a spoken target word, as indicated by anticipatory eye movements, predict graded pro

SUBMITTER: Ankener CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302025 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature