PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sentence Clause Structure, Fidgeting, Parsing
8 Dec 2020
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A sentence"s phrase structure coveys crucial information about who did what to whom. Sentences are more variable than this variation makes sentence identification more difficult. Parse to divide input into its appropriate elements. To figure out each word"s syntactic role. People parse sentences as they hear them. Try to figure out the role of each word the moment it arrives. Temporary ambiguity is common inside a sentence. The early part of a sentence is often open to multiple interpretations but then the later part of the sentence clears things up. Garden-path sentences a sentence that initially leads the reader to one understanding of how the sentence"s words are related but then requires a change in this understanding to comprehend the full sentence. Information you need in order to understand these sentences arrives only late in the sequence. To avoid an interpretive dead end remain neutral about the sentence"s meaning until you"ve gathered enough information.
