When Processing Language, We Begin Making Judgments About What the Sentence

question 3

Multiple Choice

When processing language, we begin making judgments about what the sentence means before we have heard (or read) the entire sentence. This is referred to as

• A) passive voicing.
• B) lexical ambiguity.
• C) incremental interpretation.
• D) transformation.

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