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Garden Path Sentences<br />

• Some sentences are so hard <strong>to</strong> understand that the listener<br />

actually seems <strong>to</strong> be led in<strong>to</strong> a garden path when trying <strong>to</strong><br />

interpret them. She is stuck.<br />

Es ist eine Lüge, dass Fritz zugunsten von Maria nie<br />

It is a lie that Fritz in aid of Maris never<br />

etwas unternommen worden wäre.<br />

something done have was<br />

Columbus` Feinde glaubten, dass der Entdecker von Amerika erst<br />

Columbus enemies believed that the discoverer of America yet<br />

im Jahre 1502 erfahren hat.<br />

in-the year 1502 learnt has<br />

27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 30

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