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  <Title>The information-processing difficulty of incremental parsing</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> When an incremental parser gets the next word, its expectations about upcoming grammatical structures can change. When a word greatly constrains these grammatical expectations, uncertainty is reduced. This elimination of possibilities constitutes information processing work. Formalizing this notion of information processing work yields a complexity metric that predicts human repetition accuracy scores across a systematic class of linguistic phenomena, the Accessibility Hierarchy of relativizable grammatical relations.</Paragraph>
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