L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension
The thesis in this paper is that L2 speakers differ from L1 speakers in their ability to do memory storage and retrieval about linguistic structure. We would like to suggest it is possible to go farther than this thesis and develop a computational-level theory which explains why this mechanistic dif...
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| description | The thesis in this paper is that L2 speakers differ from L1 speakers in their ability to do memory storage and retrieval about linguistic structure. We would like to suggest it is possible to go farther than this thesis and develop a computational-level theory which explains why this mechanistic difference between L2 and L1 speakers exists. For this purpose, we believe a noisy channel model (Shannon, 1948; Levy, 2008; Levy, Bicknell, Slattery & Rayner, 2009; Gibson, Bergen & Piantadosi, 2013) could be a good start. Under the reasonable assumption that L2 speakers have a less precise probabilistic representation of the syntax of their L2 language than L1 speakers do, the noisy channel model straightforwardly predicts that L2 comprehenders will depend more on world knowledge and discourse factors when interpreting and recalling utterances (cf. Gibson, Sandberg, Fedorenko, Bergen & Kiran, 2015, for this assumption applied to language processing for persons with aphasia). Also, under the assumption that L2 speakers assume a higher error rate than L1 speakers do, the noisy channel model predicts that they will be more affected by alternative parses which are not directly compatible with the form of an utterance. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1130262022-10-01T13:54:51Z L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension Futrell, Richard Landy Jones Gibson, Edward A Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Gibson, Edward Futrell, Richard Landy Jones Gibson, Edward A The thesis in this paper is that L2 speakers differ from L1 speakers in their ability to do memory storage and retrieval about linguistic structure. We would like to suggest it is possible to go farther than this thesis and develop a computational-level theory which explains why this mechanistic difference between L2 and L1 speakers exists. For this purpose, we believe a noisy channel model (Shannon, 1948; Levy, 2008; Levy, Bicknell, Slattery & Rayner, 2009; Gibson, Bergen & Piantadosi, 2013) could be a good start. Under the reasonable assumption that L2 speakers have a less precise probabilistic representation of the syntax of their L2 language than L1 speakers do, the noisy channel model straightforwardly predicts that L2 comprehenders will depend more on world knowledge and discourse factors when interpreting and recalling utterances (cf. Gibson, Sandberg, Fedorenko, Bergen & Kiran, 2015, for this assumption applied to language processing for persons with aphasia). Also, under the assumption that L2 speakers assume a higher error rate than L1 speakers do, the noisy channel model predicts that they will be more affected by alternative parses which are not directly compatible with the form of an utterance. 2018-01-08T20:24:32Z 2018-01-08T20:24:32Z 2016-09 2016-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1366-7289 1469-1841 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113026 Futrell, Richard, and Gibson, Edward. “L2 Processing as Noisy Channel Language Comprehension.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20, 4 (September 2016): 683–684 © 2016 Cambridge University Press https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2656-6139 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-883X en_US https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916001061 Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press Prof. Gibson via Courtney Crummett |
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| title | L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension |
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| title_short | L2 processing as noisy channel language comprehension |
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