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Direct linkChristianson, Kiel; Williams, Carrick C.; Zacks, Rose T.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions probing the initial, syntactically unlicensed interpretation (e.g., "Did Anna dress the baby?"). The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentence Structure, Probability, Age Differences
