Up the Garden Path

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F14%3A10287484" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/14:10287484 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/dload.jsp?prezMat=47802" target="_blank" >http://www.cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/dload.jsp?prezMat=47802</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Up the Garden Path
Original language description
The article describes basic types of garden path sentences, i.e. sentences which are grammatically accurate but result in misinterpretation owing to the erroneous identification of the syntactical function of polysemous words or expressions. A syntactical analysis of the sample sentences revealed 10 different types of garden path sentences. The key factors contributing to the misinterpretation are homonymy across word classes, ellipsis, juxtaposition, and also the reader's expectation of a likely endingof a sentence caused by the frequency of certain collocations. The article compares the phenomenon with ambiguity. Whilst ambiguity contains two deep structures, garden path phenomena have only one deep structure. The double interpretation of garden path sentences is possible only up to a certain point, when the reader realizes the error and has to reanalyze. The author calls the phenomen "ambiguity up to a point" or "syntactical illusion".
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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