@InProceedings{shain-EtAl:2016:CL4LC,
  author    = {Shain, Cory  and  van Schijndel, Marten  and  Futrell, Richard  and  Gibson, Edward  and  Schuler, William},
  title     = {Memory access during incremental sentence processing causes reading time latency},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {49--58},
  abstract  = {Studies on the role of memory as a predictor of reading time latencies (1)
	differ in their predictions about when memory effects should occur in
	processing and (2) have had mixed results, with strong positive effects
	emerging from isolated constructed stimuli and weak or even negative effects
	emerging from naturally-occurring stimuli. Our study addresses these concerns
	by comparing several implementations of prominent sentence processing theories
	on an exploratory corpus and evaluating the most successful of these on a
	confirmatory corpus, using a new self-paced reading corpus of seemingly natural
	narratives constructed to contain an unusually high proportion of
	memory-intensive constructions. We show highly significant and complementary
	broad-coverage latency effects both for predictors based on the Dependency
	Locality Theory and for predictors based on a left-corner parsing model of
	sentence processing. Our results indicate that memory access during sentence
	processing does take time, but suggest that stimuli requiring many memory
	access events may be necessary in order to observe the effect.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4106}
}