Editing Predictability (section)

==In human sentence processing==
{{Main |Prediction in language comprehension}}
Linguistic prediction is a phenomenon in [[psycholinguistics]] occurring whenever information about a word or other linguistic unit is activated before that unit is actually encountered. Evidence from [[eyetracking]], [[event-related potentials]], and other experimental methods indicates that in addition to integrating each subsequent word into the context formed by previously encountered words, language users may, under certain conditions, try to predict upcoming words. Predictability has been shown to affect both text and speech processing, as well as speech production. Further, predictability has been shown to have an effect on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic comprehension.