AI RESEARCH
Revisiting Real-Time Digging-In Effects: No Evidence from NP/Z Garden-Paths
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.23624v1 Announce Type: new Digging-in effects, where disambiguation difficulty increases with longer ambiguous regions, have been cited as evidence for self-organized sentence processing, in which structural commitments strengthen over time. In contrast, surprisal theory predicts no such effect unless lengthening genuinely shifts statistical expectations, and neural language models appear to show the opposite pattern.