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Language Down the Garden Path

Itziar Laka , Montserrat Sanz , Michael K. Tanenhaus

Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in his 1970 paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This 'garden path sentence', so-called because of the way it leads the reader or listener down the wrong parsing...