| Number | 1089 |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Drawer | 20 |
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| Entry Date | 11/22/1999 |
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| Authors | Ni, W., Fodor, J. D., Crain, S., & Shankweiler, D. |
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| Publication | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 27, 515-539. |
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| Abstract | The symptom of a garden path in sentence processing is an apparent anomaly in the input string. This anomaly signals to the parser that an error has occurred, and provides cues for how to repair it. Anomaly detection is thus an important aspect of sentence processing. In the present study, we investigated how the parser responds to unambiguous sentences that contain syntactic anomalies and pragmatic anomalies, examining records of eye movement during reading. While sensitivity t the two kinds of anomaly was very rapid and essentially simultaneous, qualitative differences existed in the patterns or first-pass reading times and eye regressions. The results are compatible with the proposal that syntactic information and pragmatic information are used differently garden-path recovery. |
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