Functional Completeness as a Determinant of Processing Load During Sentence Comprehension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10256530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Carroll (0000-0001-9166-2218, IBM Watson Research Center) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 347-369 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383097902200405 |
| PMID | 542054 |
| OpenAlex | W1806684033 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that processing load during sentence comprehension decreases more at the termination of functionally complete linguistic sequences than it does at the termination of functionally incomplete sequences. Functionally complete sequences were defined as consisting of complete, coherent, and fully explicit propositional structures: subject-verb-(object). It was shown that identifying sentence comprehension units with functionally complete sequences accounts for systematic fluctuations in processing load in cases for which purely syntactic definitions of sentence comprehension units make no predictions. Further empirical elaborations in the definition of functional completeness were discussed
Completeness (order theory · Comprehension · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Object (grammar · Programming language · Sentence · Sentence processing · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.02 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 1981 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |