Which of the Following Statements Describes One of the Key

question 1

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements describes one of the key assumptions of the garden-path model of parsing?

• A) Semantic processing is necessary to construct initial syntactic structure
• B) Semantic processing occurs prior to syntactic processing
• C) Semantic processing does not influence the construction of the initial syntactic structure
• D) Semantic and syntactic processing occur simultaneously
• E) None of these

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