Introduction to Syntax Session 1

Presentation Topic 2
Sentence Processing
Many sentences are ambiguous in meaning. However, often
only one meaning is predominant. Sometimes this is even the
one that should be excluded by world knowledge or other
factors. Furthermore, some sentences are virtually
uninterpretable, although they actually do have a perfect
meaning. We call this effect the garden path effect.
People have argued for certain human parsing strategies that
can be held responsible for these effects.
Read the following papers about human parsing in general
and garden path effects in particular and report the results of
these papers to the class.
27.05.2008 Some slides are adapted from material of A. Carnie 32