Psycholinguistics: Temporal Ambiguity and Garden Path Sentences

Choose a study mode

Play Quiz
Study Flashcards
Spaced Repetition
Chat to Lesson

Podcast

Play an AI-generated podcast conversation about this lesson

Questions and Answers

What is the term for sentences that are temporarily ambiguous but eventually resolvable?

  • Garden path sentences (correct)
  • Contextual sentences
  • Syntactic ambiguity sentences
  • Cognitive control sentences

What is the relationship between temporal ambiguity and cognitive control?

  • Cognitive control has no relation to temporal ambiguity
  • Temporal ambiguity is a type of cognitive control
  • Cognitive control is a result of temporal ambiguity
  • Temporal ambiguity is reduced by cognitive control (correct)

What is the primary challenge of parsing garden path sentences?

  • Recognizing sentence structure
  • Understanding context
  • Resolving ambiguity (correct)
  • Identifying word order

What is the key feature of garden path sentences that makes them difficult to process?

<p>Temporary ambiguity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the implications of temporal ambiguity on language processing?

<p>It can result in slower language processing (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards are hidden until you start studying

More Like This

Syntactic Parsing Quiz
28 questions

Syntactic Parsing Quiz

RejoicingChrysoprase6402 avatar
RejoicingChrysoprase6402
Sentence Parsing in Psycholinguistics
21 questions
Use Quizgecko on...
Browser
Browser