Semantic re-interpretation and garden path recovery

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Participant's eye-movements were recorded while they read locally ambiguous sentences. Evidence for processing difficulty was found when the interpretation of the initially preferred misanalysis clashed with that of the globally correct analysis, demonstrating the persistence of the earlier interpretation. Processing difficulty associated with the syntactic reanalysis was largely localised to the disambiguating region, with difficulty due to semantic persistence occurring later. The results show that semantic persistence is not limited to extreme cases of parse failure, and can occur even when reanalysis is relatively straightforward.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)477-88
Number of pages12
JournalCognition
Volume105
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Attention
  • Comprehension
  • Eye Movements
  • Humans
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Reading
  • Semantics

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