A gif showing how we might process garden path sentences from this website on human sentence processing. From the description: “Though we easily understand most sentences in written texts, we also stumble upon constructions such as “The horse raced...

A gif showing how we might process garden path sentences from this website on human sentence processing. From the description: 

Though we easily understand most sentences in written texts, we also stumble upon constructions such as “The horse raced past the barn fell” or “While Anna dressed the baby spit up” that challenge us cognitively. When this is the case, a garden path effect occurs: our parsing or interpretation strategy fails, causing us to first misinterpret the sentence (it leads us on the garden path) and forcing us to reanalyse the temporarily ambiguous sentence so that it can make sense (Bever, 1970; Milne, 1982; Ferreira, Christianson & Hollingworth, 2003).

The site overall has quite an accessible summary of research and methods in sentence processing, including notably a list of departments and researchers working on the topic. A useful addition to the psycholinguistics portion of the protolinguist series. 

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