#3649. What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?

October 2026publication date
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Language and Linguistics;
Linguistics and Language;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology;
Artificial Intelligence;
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Abstract:
A key question in research on sentence processing concerns how sentences that have been misanalyzed are reinterpreted, and to what extent the parsers attempts at revision are successful. In two reading experiments, we sought to evaluate the level of representation that is responsible for misinterpretations of garden-path sentences. We combined reading measures with an offline comprehension task, which enabled us to conditionalize reading time analyses on correct versus incorrect question-answering performance. Our results suggest that reanalysis does not always result in a correct interpretation, either because the final interpretation does not always reflect the global structure or because reanalysis processes result in the creation of licit local trees but fail to generate a complete global parse for the entire sentence.
Keywords:
Garden-path sentences; Good processing; Reanalysis

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