PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syntactic Ambiguity, Parsing, Sentence Processing
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Lecture 3: ambiguity of sentences (8. 1 - 8. 3) Identify how words are related to e/o using the syntactic rules of the language. Not only found in elliptical style of headlines - also found in every day life. Sentence is ambiguous after the whole sentence has been presented. We tend to notice it in written texts. Arises from the fact that sentences unfold in time. The and is ambiguous until the sentence is completed. Do nothing/ wait: stores info for a bit and then it puts it all together (catch-up process) Do something/ try to figure it out: identify relationships b/w words - continuous. Support: some words that follow confuse us b/c we did not expect them. We do not store and look for all possible sentences as we read. Ambiguity is evaluated in terms of syntactic structure. People are slow to read some continuation of sentences - if they are not common follow ups.
