Mode of disambiguation and garden-path strength: an investigation of subject-object ambiguities in German.
The results of three experiments are reported which investigated the processing of locally ambiguous object-subject sentences in German. These sentences are known to elicit garden-path effects because the parser initially prefers the assignment of a subject-object structure (e.g.. Schriefers. Friede...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 43 - 75 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jan-Mar2000
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