Psycholinguistics: Temporal Ambiguity and Garden Path Sentences
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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</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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