Linguistics & Language · Psycholinguistics & Acquisition
A topic within Psycholinguistics & Acquisition, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Lyn Frazier & Janet Dean Fodor
Argues the human sentence processor first builds syntactic structure over a small window of words, then checks it against the rest of the sentence, explaining why readers are garden-pathed by sentences that later force a reanalysis.
link checked 17 Sept 2026John Hale
Models a parser's difficulty at each word as the change in a probability distribution over remaining analyses, showing this single information-theoretic quantity predicts where readers slow down without needing a separate garden-path mechanism.