Single‐Stage Prediction Models Do Not Explain the Magnitude of Syntactic Disambiguation Difficulty
Single‐Stage Prediction Models Do Not Explain the Magnitude of Syntactic Disambiguation Difficulty
Abstract The disambiguation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence in favor of a less preferred 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 initially maintain only a subset of the possible parses of the sentence, …