Overt reanalysis strategies and eye movements during the reading of mild garden path sentences

Overt reanalysis strategies and eye movements during the reading of mild garden path sentences.

In an eye movement experiment, we examined the use of reanalysis strategies during the reading of locally ambiguous but globally unambiguous Spanish sentences. Among other measures, we examined regressive eye movements made while readers were recovering in reading mild garden path sentences. The sentences had an adverbial clause that, depending on the mood (indicative vs. subjunctive) of the su...

Predicting Garden Path Sentences

This work is an investigation into part of the human sentence parsing mechanism (HSPM). The major test of the psychological val idi ty of any model of the HSPM is that it fail on precisely those sentences that humans find to be garden paths. It is hypothesized that the HSPM consists of at least two processes. We call the first process the syntactic processor, and the second wil l be known as th...

The Reanalysis and Interpretation of Garden-path Sentences by Native Speakers and Second Language Learners By

Hallucinations in Garden Path sentences

Garden path sentences are those in which an ambiguity in the structure biases the reader’s interpretation so strongly toward a wrong interpretation that when a disambiguating word is encountered, the meaning is very tough to recover, if at all possible. In this project, we study sentences that are not traditionally garden path, but that are interpreted as garden path because the initial input, ...

Misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: implications for models of sentence processing and reanalysis.

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...