Recovery from misanalyses of garden-path sentences ☆

By Fernanda Ferreira, J. Henderson. 1991

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Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading (2016, background): “Although not the focus of this work, the signiﬁcance of the write operation can be analogously justiﬁed as a way of incrementally updating previous memories, e.g., to correct wrong interpretations when processing garden path sentences (Ferreira and Henderson, 1991).”
Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations (2013, background): “Sentences containing temporary local ambiguities such as the ‘‘garden-path sentence’’ in (1) have been exploited by psycholinguists for decades (Ferreira & Henderson, 1991; Frazier & Rayner, 1982) as a way to reveal the mechanisms of language comprehension.”
Toward a model of grammaticality judgments1 (2009, methodology): “This method has been used successfully to study the mental processes involved in syntactic ambiguity resolution (e.g. Warner & Glass 1987, Frazier & Flores d’Arcais 1989, Ferreira & Henderson 1991, Meng & Bader 2000) and in research on second-language acquisition (Hopp 2007).”
Unrestricted race: A new model of syntactic ambiguity resolution. (2000, unknown): “ Ferreira & Henderson, 1991; Gorrell, 1995; Pritchett, 1988, 1992; Sturt & Crocker, 1996).”
Effects of merely local syntactic coherence on sentence processing (2004, background): “Frazier and Fodor (1978) is an early proposal, according to which, information is transmitted to the parser via a fixed-width buffer.”
Accounting for regressive eye-movements in models of sentence processing: A reappraisal of the Selective Reanalysis hypothesis (2008, methodology): “More specifically, the materials we used were modelled on sentences used by Ferreira and Henderson (1991, 1993), and in later studies, to extend the length of the region of ambiguity.”
Like a Baby: Visually Situated Neural Language Acquisition (2018, background): “The surprisal of a word or phrase refers to the degree of mismatch between what a human listener expected to be said next and what is actually said, for example, when a garden path sentence forces the listener to abandon a partial, incremental parse (Ferreira and Henderson, 1991; Hale, 2001).”
Psycholinguistics, formal grammars, and cognitive science (2005, background): “In addition, our work has demonstrated that ease of reanalysis depends on the syntactic characteristics of the ambiguous NP (Ferreira and Henderson 1991; see also Bailey and Ferreira 2003, and Van Dyke and Lewis 2003).”
The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences. (2003, unknown): “…years or so on sentence comprehension has addressed a rather specific question: How is syntactic ambiguity resolved (e.g., Ferreira & Clifton, 1986; Ferreira & Henderson, 1990, 1991; Frazier & Rayner, 1982; Hoeks, Vonk, & Schriefers, 2002; MacDonald, 1994; Schneider & Philips, 2001; Tanenhaus,…”
An Activation-Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval (2005, background): “ability to project beyond argument structure if it is to handle adjunct attachment and phenomena in head-final constructions (Bader & Lasser, 1994; Frazier, 1987b; Hirose & Inoue, 1997; Inoue & Fodor, 1995; Konieczny, Hemforth, Scheepers, & Strube, 1997). Some highly lexicalized grammar formalisms s”
Structural facilitation: Mere exposure effects for grammatical acceptability as evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension (2005, background): “They have frequently been used to evaluate theories of language comprehension or to examine the interdependence of language comprehension and memory (e.g., Blackwell & Bates, 1995; Ferreira & Henderson, 1991).”
Expectation-based syntactic comprehension. (2008, background): “ Ferreira and Henderson (1991) found (using relative clause rather than gerund VP postmodifiers) that participants judged NP/Z sentences grammatical less often when the ambiguous NP was long, as in (19-b), than when it was short, as in (19-a).”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “…language comprehension It has long been observed that in the course of language comprehension, language users make early parsing decisions that may have to be revised if the following words conflict with the initial parse, resulting in so-called garden-path effects (cf. Ferreira & Henderson, 1991).”
Understanding heritage languages (2019, background): “…material takes longer to process than predicted material; we know this from studies of surprisal (e.g., Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and garden-path effects (e.g., Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell & Ferreira, 2001; Ferreira & Henderson, 1991; Frazier & Rayner, 1982; Pickering & Traxler, 1998).”
Disfluencies affect the parsing of garden-path sentences (2003, unknown): “The current experiments do not allow us to speculate with any certainty on the mechanism at work when modifiers are present (but see Ferreira & Henderson, 1991, 1998, for discussion).”
Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters (2008, background): “) initially seems to be the object of the preceding verb, are h arder to recover from than 2b and 3b [26, 27, 15].”
Distinguishing effects of structure and decay on attachment and repair: A cue-based parsing account of recovery from misanalyzed ambiguities (2003, methodology): “This is in contrast to the results of Ferreira and Henderson (1991a, 1991b) discussed previously, in which structural properties of the ambiguous region appear not to play a role in reanalysis.”
Plausibility and recovery from garden paths in second language sentence processing (2011, background): “Among the various factors that have been found to affect the relative strength of GP effects in native speakers is the structural distance between the ambiguous NP and the disambiguating element (e.g., Christianson et al., 2001; Ferreira & Henderson, 1991).”