Author Question: Which of these is a garden-path sentence? a) They are cooking rocks. b) The horse raced past ... (Read 40 times)

fnuegbu · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Which of these is a garden-path sentence?

a) They are cooking rocks.
b) The horse raced past the barn fell.
c) John went to the grocery store and bought a car.
d) Susan walked up the garden path.

Question 2

The difficulty in processing garden-path sentences:

a) confirms that the default structure in English syntax tends to be subject-object-verb.
b) is evidence against the garden-path approach.
c) is evident in reading times, but not in eye movements.
d) applies to blind readers of Braille.