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Uncertainty About the Rest of the Sentence
2006
Cognitive Science
A word-by-word human sentence processing complexity metric is presented. This metric formalizes the intuition that comprehenders have more trouble on words contributing larger amounts of information about the syntactic structure of the sentence as a whole. The formalization is in terms of the conditional entropy of grammatical continuations, given the words that have been heard so far. To calculate the predictions of this metric, Wilson and Carroll's (1954) original entropy reduction idea is
doi:10.1207/s15516709cog0000_64
pmid:21702829
fatcat:bor2fao2zraazbitr4eadjng7a