prediction

Counting ‘uhm’s: how tracking the distribution of native and non-native disfluencies influences online language comprehension
Disfluencies, like uh, have been shown to help listeners anticipate reference to low-frequency words. The associative account of this …
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Native ‘um’s elicit prediction of low-frequency referents, but non-native ‘um’s do not
Speech comprehension involves extensive use of prediction. Linguistic prediction may be guided by the semantics or syntax, but also by …
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