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Question

The following two noun phrases are each globally ambiguous syntactically:

(i) the owner of the cat with a long tail

(i) the owner of the cat with small hands

According to the Garden Path model, which sentence is expected to give rise to processing difficulty and at what word?

Choose one:

• (i) at "tail"

• (i) at "cat"

• (ii) at "hands"

• (ii) at "cat"

Answer

(i) at "tail"

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According to the Garden Path model, the sentence that is expected to give rise to processing difficulty is (i) at the word "tail", as it...