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 …