Garden Path Model

Question 1

what is the GPM

Answer 1

two stage autonomous parser in which initial attachments / structures made on the basis on syntactic information.

Question 2

explain the two stages of the GPM

Answer 2

initial attachments made on the basis of the principles of MA an late closure, (ma taking precedence), without references to word meaning. finds MA sentences easy, predicts that sentence which don’t obey MA- hard to deal with.
stage 2: initial attachments confirmed or revised on basis of semantic (meaning) information, generated by an independent thematic processor.

Question 3

brief outline of GPM

Answer 3

build structure according to preferred way regardless of the meaning, if it’s wrong then it is revised at stage 2.

Question 4

what did Frazier and Rayne 1982 do?

Answer 4

found evidence that people follow MA so far which leads them up the garden path, return and retry to get it right.
LC only operatures when MA can’t decide between alternatives, will try to fit word into the phrase processing if grammatical to of so.

Question 5

what did Ferreira and Clifton 1986 find?

Answer 5

claim that people will follow MA in the first part of the sentence even if it doesn’t make sense.

Question 6

problems with the Garden Path Model

Answer 6

assumes syntactic structure processing is isolated by controlling semantic meaning.
Crain and Steedman argue no such thing as neutral semantic context, nothing to do with parsing principles but to do with expectations about what sentences are going to be like.
tannenhaus et al, study shown that visual context prevents you from ever considering the wrong meaning - context used immediately if available against the GPM.
relies on arguments from null effects which are suspect, haven’t found the effect - could be nothing to do with parsing. all can conclude from it is that there is no evidence for an effect