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to the structure in the message, but is not a substitute for the structure itself-neither computationally, formally, nor conceptually. Surprisal and other probabilistic metrics must play a key role as theoretical objects in any explanatory mechanistic theory of language processing, but that role remains in the service of the brain's goal of constructing structured meaning from sensory input. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42113-025-00237-9.
Slaats et al. (Fri,) studied this question.