What the Heck Is Salience? How Predictive Language Processing Contributes to Sociolinguistic Perception

Affiliations

¹ Human Language Processing Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA; Department of Linguistics, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA.
² Human Language Processing Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, USA.

T Florian Jaeger et al. Front Psychol. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 3:7:1115.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01115. eCollection 2016.

¹ Human Language Processing Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA; Department of Linguistics, University of RochesterRochester, NY, USA.
² Human Language Processing Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Rochester, NY, USA.

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Keywords: accent; dialect; expectation; idiolect; learning; prediction; salience; surprisal.

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