Journal article
Misinterpretations of Garden-Path Sentences: Implications for Models of Sentence Processing and Reanalysis
Journal of psycholinguistic research, Vol.30(1), pp.3-20
01/2001
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005290706460
PMID: 11291182
Abstract
Theories of sentence comprehension have addressed both initial parsing processes and mechanisms responsible for reanalysis. Three experiments are summarized that were designed to investigate the reanalysis and interpretation of relatively difficult garden-path sentences (e.g., While Anna dressed the baby spit up on the bed). After reading such sentences, participants correctly believed that the baby spit up on the bed; however, they often confidently, yet incorrectly, believed that Anna dressed the baby. These results demonstrate that garden-path reanalysis is not an all-or-nothing process and that thematic roles initially assigned for the subordinate clause verb are not consistently revised. The implications of the partial reanalysis phenomenon for Fodor and Inoue's (1998) model of reanalysis and sentence processing are discussed. In addition, we discuss the possibility that language processing often creates “good enough” structures rather than ideal structures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Misinterpretations of Garden-Path Sentences: Implications for Models of Sentence Processing and Reanalysis
- Creators
- Fernanda Ferreira - Department of Linguistics Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan 48824Kiel Christianson - Department of Linguistics Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan 48824Andrew Hollingworth - Cognitive Science Program Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan 48824
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of psycholinguistic research, Vol.30(1), pp.3-20
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1005290706460
- PMID
- 11291182
- ISSN
- 0090-6905
- eISSN
- 1573-6555
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213423002771
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