Garden-path sentence - Revision history

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LaurenAckerman: examples, and how!

2010-07-25T18:12:20Z

examples, and how!

Wohlgemuth at 15:48, 25 July 2010

2010-07-25T15:48:20Z

Hanachronism: Created page with 'A garden path sentence is one which leads initially to to a incorrect interpretation. Perhaps the most famous example of this is: *the horse ran past the barn fell The presenc...'

2010-07-25T14:30:44Z

Created page with 'A garden path sentence is one which leads initially to to a incorrect interpretation. Perhaps the most famous example of this is: *the horse ran past the barn fell The presenc...'

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A garden path sentence is one which leads initially to to a incorrect interpretation.

Perhaps the most famous example of this is:

*the horse ran past the barn fell

The presence of the word 'fell' makes us go back and re-evaluate the sentence. This demonstrates the immediacy of interpretation when processing sentences.

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-A garden path sentence is one which leads initially to to a incorrect interpretation.
+A '''garden path''' sentence leads a [[parser]] initially to an incorrect interpretation. This is often due to the components having multiple meanings, with the [[grammatical]] parse being significantly less frequent than the misinterpretation.
-Perhaps the most famous example of this is:
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-* ''the horse ran past the barn fell''
+*''' ''The old man the boat.'' '''
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 Perhaps the most famous example of this is:
-*the horse ran past the barn fell
+* ''the horse ran past the barn fell''
 The presence of the word 'fell' makes us go back and re-evaluate the sentence. This demonstrates the immediacy of interpretation when processing sentences.