“…For example, is there a principled trade‐off between scales such that (spoken or signed) languages exhibiting relatively low entropy at low hierarchical scales (e.g., morphology) exhibit higher entropy at some higher scale (e.g., syntax) and vice versa? Does the relative informativity of different scales vary as a function of language change (Bentz, Kiela, Hill, & Buttery, ; Chand, Kapper, Mondal, Sur, & Parshad, )? - Determining which of the abovementioned information transfer metrics is best‐suited to predict behavior and online processing of language, and whether the predictivity of metrics depends on the scale and language under consideration.
- Exploring the extent to which information extraction from signal streams in different modalities critically relies on the same brain circuits. This could, for example, be achieved via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies exploring whether disrupting information extraction at a given hierarchical scale has analogous processing effects across different modalities (e.g., the processing of motor event schemas vs. linguistic schemas).
- Investigating the relationship between the cognitive capabilities put to use in information processing (e.g., segmentation and hierarchical structuring) and other cognitive processes.
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