Garden Path Sentence - Re-analysis of A Garden Path Sentence

Re-analysis of A Garden Path Sentence

When ambiguous nouns appear, they can function as both the object of the first item or the subject of the second item. In that case the former use is preferred. It is also found out that the reanalysis of a garden path sentence gets more and more difficult with the length of the ambiguous phrase.

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