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garden-path en · VERB

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1. To mislead with a garden path sentence.
   • Additionally, the GP sentences were read significantly more slowly than correspondingly NGP controls, as showed in Fig. 2, below, since these BP complex structures are parsed by following Late Closure and thus garden pathed the subjects (see Ribeiro, 2005). 2012, Antonio João Carvalho Ribeiro, “Good-enough comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese garden-path sentences”, in Giuseppe Mininni, Amelia Manuti, editors, Applied Psycholinguistics: Positive effects and ethical perspectives, volume 1, Milan: FrancoAngeli, →ISBN, page 399:
   • The participants were more easily garden pathed to the interpretation of The teachers as the doer (or agent) of “taught,” which led them to make the judgment that the sentence beginning with The teachers did not make sense. 2021, Megumi Hamada, Learning Words from Reading: A Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 89:
   • Therefore, a sentence with an initial gap, such as Who asked Meg to persuade Jill to inform Ted that Bob had spoken to Tom?, would garden path an active parser just as often as (17) would, and both sentences would be considerably more troublesome to an active parser than to a passive one. 1978, Janet Dean Fodor, “Parsing Strategies and Constraints on Transformations”, in Linguistic Inquiry, volume 9, number 3, →JSTOR, page 443:
   • ‘Mitty’ owes much of its interest to violating this rule in its opening pages, deliberately ‘garden-pathing’ the reader into mistaking Mitty’s fantasy world for his actual world (as, apparently, Mitty himself is inclined to do). 2004 [2016], Alan Richardson, “Studies in Literature and Cognition: A Field Map”, in Alan Richardson, Ellen Spolsky, editors, The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:
   • We anticipated that the reader would be garden-pathed immediately on encountering the disambiguating verb of a sentence like (3). 1998, Simon P. Liversedge, Kevin B. Paterson, Martin J. Pickering, “Eye Movements and Measures of Reading Time”, in Geoffrey Underwood, editor, Eye Guidance in Reading and Scene Perception, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 66:
   • Specifically, if the parsing model incorporates a property that permits delay, why doesn't this property insure that the parser will never be garden-pathed? 1991, Paul Gorrell, “Subcategorization and Sentence Processing”, in Robert C. Berwick, Steven P. Abney, Carol Tenny, editors, Principle-based Parsing: Computation and Psycholinguistics, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 284:

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