Memory capacity and sentence processing

Authors:
Edward Gibson
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1990

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Abstract

The limited capacity of working memory is intrinsic to human sentence processing, and therefore must be addressed by any theory of human sentence processing. This paper gives a theory of garden-path effects and processing overload that is based on simple assumptions about human short term memory capacity.