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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"garden path sentences"”.
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… non-native processing of English and Mandarin garden-path sentences (Chapters 2 and 3) and the relationship between the amount of reanalysis and final interpretation of such sentences (Chapter 4). Verb bias refers to the likelihood of a particular verb taking a particular argument structure, …
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The interaction of images and text during comprehension of garden-path sentences: is integration better than good enough?
… Decades of research on temporarily ambiguous garden-path sentences have given the field of psycholinguistics a comprehensive understanding of how readers process, and often misinterpret, garden-path sentences. Both online and offline data demonstrate that when reading garden-path sentences …
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Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation in relative clause garden-path constructions
… (e.g., a high number of reduced relative-clause garden path sentences) and that these readers grow to disfavor the a priori more frequent structure after exposure (Fine, Jaeger, Qian, & Farmer, 2013). However, recent work has failed to replicate effects indicating a penalty for the preferred, …
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Garden path tripartite compounds
… shown that readers struggle with ambiguous or “garden path” sentences. Readers often maintain both the initial incorrect parse of the sentence as well as the final correct parse, resulting in a “good enough” representation of the sentence structure. To my knowledge, no research has analyzed …
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The role of executive control in garden path reinterpretation
… one way to interpret a sentence or sequence of sentences is possible and reliable sources of information may mislead us into developing an ultimately incorrect interpretation. Several questions could be asked about language comprehension in these cases. First, how good are we at recovering from …