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Engelhardt, Paul E.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Language and Speech, 2010
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as "put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel." Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase "the pan" will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based…
Descriptors: Nouns, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Theories