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Rapid syntactic adaptation in self-paced reading: Detectable, but only with many participants.

Rapid syntactic adaptation in self-paced reading: Detectable, but only with many participants.

Temporarily ambiguous sentences that are disambiguated in favor of a less preferred parse are read more slowly than their unambiguous counterparts. This slowdown is referred to as a garden path effect. Recent self-paced reading studies have found that this effect decreased over the course of the experiment as participants were …