LINGUIST 2PS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Parsing, Complementizer
9 Apr 2016
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The second wife will claim the entire inheritance from the estate object of claim. The second wife will claim the entire inheritance belongs to her subject of belongs slow reading time. Slow reading time shows difficulties and mind tries to reanalyze take slow reading time for evidence of parsing happening in serial. Slower reading time is evidence of a garden path . When youre at point of temp ambiguity you make decision based on syntactic factors alone (only looks at structure) To make syntactic decision first look for attachment decision that"s the most minimal or fewest number of nodes. Not every decision can be resolved through minimal attachment. Should have preference for transitive because it keeps it open longer than intransitive. If intransitive then it would be closing that phrase/clause early. While jan ate the napkin slipped off her lap . When first make decision, only cares about syntax.
