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The garden-path sentence effect occurs when the sentence has a phrase or word with an ambiguous meaning that the reader interprets in a certain way and, when they read the whole sentence, there is a difference in what has been read and what was expected. The reader must then read and evaluate the sentence again to understand its meaning.
For example: The man who heard that the dog had been killed on the radio ran away. One can tell if a sentence is center embedded or edge embedded depending on where the brackets are located in the sentence. [Joe believes [Mary thinks [John is handsome.]]] The cat [that the dog [that the man hit] chased] meowed.
The ambiguity in a locally ambiguous sentence briefly stays and is resolved, i.e., disambiguated, by the end of the speech. Sometimes, local ambiguities can result in "garden path" sentences, in which a structurally correct sentence is difficult to interpret because one interpretation of the ambiguous region is not the one that makes most sense.
In noncausative resultatives, the host is the subject of the resultative construction; the sentence states a change of state or position. In property resultatives, the host comes to have the property expressed by the resultative construction. In path resultatives, the resultative construction describes a path that is traversed by the host.
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A conversation with Eliza. ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 [1] at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. [2] [3] Created to explore communication between humans and machines, ELIZA simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part of the program, but had no ...
Though not an example of a garden-path sentence, the sentence "The girl the boy the dog bit hit cried" illustrates a similar language parsing problem. The sentence, which can be rewritten (awkwardly) as "The girl hit by the boy who was bitten by the dog cried", creates a parsing problem that requires the reader to keep track of multiple verb ...
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