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How Humans Produce And Interpret Sentences Using Syntax, Jun Tamura
How Humans Produce And Interpret Sentences Using Syntax, Jun Tamura
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Humans are able to use languages freely and understand the meaning of languages. This universal linguistic ability of humans can be accounted for by “syntax” in our brains, for which I will provide three pieces of supportive evidence.
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities In Declarative And Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities In Declarative And Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
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Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., She had planned to cram the paperwork in the drawer into her briefcase) have been reported to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary ambiguity of the first prepositional phrase (PP1: in the drawer), which tends to be interpreted initially as the goal argument of the verb cram. If the sentence ended there, that would be correct. But that analysis is overridden when the second prepositional phrase (PP2: into her briefcase) is encountered, since the …