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Direct linkGrodner, Daniel; Gibson, Edward – Cognitive Science, 2005
All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in the service of minimizing memory costs--more distant sentential material is more difficult to reactivate than more recent material. Note that processing any…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Sentence Structure, Language Processing, English
