PS366 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Garden Path Sentence, Connectionism, Transitive Verb
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Speakers systematically organize sequences of words into phrases, clauses and sentences. Listeners determine how the sequence of words is organized and recover the speakers intended meaning. Study of syntax involves discovering the cures that languages provide that show how words in sentences relate to on another. Syntactic parsing discovering how comprehenders use those cues to determine how words in sentences relate to one another during the process of interpreting a sentence. Globally ambiguous sentences have sequences of words that can be organized in more than one way and those different ways of organizing the sentence are all consistent with the grammar of the language. Susan was dressing the baby played on the floor end of the first clause isn"t clear: sometimes have cues of prosody that indicate the end of a clause. The longer it takes to understand a sentence, the greater the processing load of the sentence.
