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minimal attachment: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

a parsing preference to attach incoming words using the simplest syntactic structure, which can lead readers down garden paths.

In psycholinguistics, minimal attachment refers to a parsing preference to attach incoming words using the simplest syntactic structure, which can lead readers down garden paths. This meaning comes from Frazier (1982) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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parsing2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two carriers garden-path sentence1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct late closure1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

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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