Week 5
Discussing Snider and Jaeger poster at this year's Amlap:
http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/~nsnider/pubs/snider+jaeger,amlap_poster,2009.pdf
Also discussing Chang et al (2000):
and maybe Malhotra (2009).
Abstract: Much recent work suggests that language users employ probabilistic information during online production and comprehension. Probabilistic information is acquired early in life, and speakers are able to adapt their expectations to speakers and environments. This suggests that speakers update probabilistic representations (cf. connectionist and other probabilistic approaches). We present evidence that speakers are indeed updating syntactic probability distributions. The evidence comes from syntactic priming, which has been linked to implicit learning and to surprisal-sensitive processing.