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Abhishek Das
March 17, 2015
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Lost on the Garden Path
Talk on Garden Path Sentences delivered as part of a course on Linguistics at IIT Roorkee.
Abhishek Das
March 17, 2015
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Lost ON THE Garden Path @abhshkdz
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
What are garden path sentences?
What are garden path sentences? A sentence that starts in
such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect.
What are garden path sentences? A sentence that starts in
such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect.
What are garden path sentences? Sentences that lead the human
sentence processor to construct an initial syntactic structure, which turns out to be incorrect, and thus require syntactic (and semantic) reanalysis.
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
The houses(?), which are complicated (?), got married to each other and single soldiers(?)
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
Ambiguous noun phrase Disambiguating verb
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
Single and married soldiers and their families live in the complex.
While Anna dressed the baby spit up on the bed.
While Anna dressed the baby spit up on the bed.
Ambiguous noun phrase Disambiguating verb
Parsing Strategies
Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing
Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing The reader continues to interpret in
the ambiguous context until disambiguating information is given.
Parsing Strategies Parallel Parsing
Parsing Strategies Parallel Parsing The reader maintains multiple interpretations until
disambiguating information is given.
Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing Parallel Parsing
Recovery Strategies
Recovery Strategies Longer fixations on disambiguating verb Frazier, et al
(1982)
Recovery Strategies Regressive eye movements to ambiguous NP and subordinate
verb. Rayner, et al (1982)
Recovery Strategies Track eye movements to study recovery strategies. Clifton,
et al (2002)
“Good Enough” Sentence Processing
“Good Enough” Sentence Processing Processor happy with incomplete analysis as
long as it is plausible.
?