01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Syntactic Ambiguity, Parsing
9 Feb 2018
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Garden path sentences: temporarily ambiguous sentences: has two grammar parses and meanings, eventually only one possible parse and meaning. Example the cotton shirts are made from comes from alabama: wait for period to process sentence. Syntactically ambiguous sentence: permanently ambiguous: processing sentences online, has two or more parses and meanings, even after processing. Example the fisherman went to the bank. Just a word that has two possible meanings. Not a structure issue lexical ambiguity can cause structural ambiguity: we often don"t notice ambiguity because of context. Syntactic ambiguity: eats shoots and leaves: could be a panda eating shoots and leaves, could also be a panda who eats, shoots something, and the leaves. Nose ring vs nose ring: what the adjunct is modifying. See syntactic trees: high attachment vs low attachment. Garden path models of sentence processing two stages of sp.
