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garden-path sentence: a standalone construct

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a temporarily ambiguous sentence whose initial parse turns out wrong, forcing reanalysis, used to reveal how readers build syntax incrementally.

In psycholinguistics, garden-path sentence refers to a temporarily ambiguous sentence whose initial parse turns out wrong, forcing reanalysis, used to reveal how readers build syntax incrementally. This meaning comes from Frazier (1982) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

  1. Frazier, L., & Rayner, K. (1982). Making and correcting errors during sentence comprehension: Eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous sentences. Cognitive Psychology, 14(2), 178-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(82)90008-1

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