Lost on the Garden Path

Talk on Garden Path Sentences delivered as part of a course on Linguistics at IIT Roorkee.

Transcript

1. Lost ON THE Garden Path @abhshkdz
2. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
3. What are garden path sentences?
4. What are garden path sentences? A sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect.
5. What are garden path sentences? A sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect.
6. 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.
7. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
8. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. The houses(?), which are complicated (?), got married to each other and single soldiers(?)
9. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. Ambiguous noun phrase Disambiguating verb
10. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. Single and married soldiers and their families live in the complex.
11. While Anna dressed the baby spit up on the bed.
12. While Anna dressed the baby spit up on the bed. Ambiguous noun phrase Disambiguating verb
13. Parsing Strategies
14. Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing
15. Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing The reader continues to interpret in the ambiguous context until disambiguating information is given.
16. Parsing Strategies Parallel Parsing
17. Parsing Strategies Parallel Parsing The reader maintains multiple interpretations until disambiguating information is given.
18. Parsing Strategies Serial Parsing Parallel Parsing
19. Recovery Strategies
20. Recovery Strategies Longer fixations on disambiguating verb Frazier, et al (1982)
21. Recovery Strategies Regressive eye movements to ambiguous NP and subordinate verb. Rayner, et al (1982)
22. Recovery Strategies Track eye movements to study recovery strategies. Clifton, et al (2002)
23. “Good Enough” Sentence Processing
24. “Good Enough” Sentence Processing Processor happy with incomplete analysis as long as it is plausible.
25. ?