The complex houses married
and single soldiers and their
families.
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What are
garden path sentences?
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What are
garden path sentences?
A sentence that starts in such a way
that a reader’s most likely
interpretation will be incorrect.
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What are
garden path sentences?
A sentence that starts in such a way
that a reader’s most likely
interpretation will be incorrect.
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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.
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The complex houses married
and single soldiers and their
families.
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The complex houses married
and single soldiers and their
families.
The houses(?), which are complicated
(?), got married to each other and single
soldiers(?)
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The complex houses married
and single soldiers and their
families.
Ambiguous noun phrase
Disambiguating verb
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The complex houses married
and single soldiers and their
families.
Single and married soldiers and their
families live in the complex.
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While Anna dressed the baby
spit up on the bed.
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While Anna dressed the baby
spit up on the bed.
Ambiguous noun phrase
Disambiguating verb
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Parsing Strategies
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Parsing Strategies
Serial Parsing
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Parsing Strategies
Serial Parsing
The reader continues to interpret in
the ambiguous context until
disambiguating information is given.
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Parsing Strategies
Parallel Parsing
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Parsing Strategies
Parallel Parsing
The reader maintains multiple
interpretations until disambiguating
information is given.
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Parsing Strategies
Serial Parsing
Parallel Parsing
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Recovery Strategies
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Recovery Strategies
Longer fixations on
disambiguating verb
Frazier, et al (1982)
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Recovery Strategies
Regressive eye movements to
ambiguous NP and subordinate verb.
Rayner, et al (1982)
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Recovery Strategies
Track eye movements to study
recovery strategies.
Clifton, et al (2002)
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“Good Enough”
Sentence Processing
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“Good Enough”
Sentence Processing
Processor happy with incomplete
analysis as long as it is plausible.