Salience and attention in surprisal-based accounts of language processing

The notion of salience has been singled out as the explanatory factor for a diverse range oflinguistic phenomena. In particular, perceptual salience (e.g. visual salience of objects in the world,acoustic prominence of linguistic sounds) and semantic-pragmatic salience (e.g. prominence ofrecently men...

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Main Authors: Alessandra eZarcone, Marten evan Schijndel, Jorrig eVogels, Vera eDemberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00844/full