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Neural network surprisal predicts the existence but not the magnitude of human syntactic disambiguation difficulty

Neural network surprisal predicts the existence but not the magnitude of human syntactic disambiguation difficulty

The disambiguation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence in favor of dispreferred parse can lead to slower reading at the disambiguation point. This phenomenon, referred to as a garden path effect, has motivated models in which readers only maintain a subset of the possible parses of the sentence; reverting to a …