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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />

Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />

Lecture 1:<br />

Introduction<br />

Garden Path Sentences<br />

These curiosities are another kind <strong>of</strong> ambiguity which are more relevant to<br />

psycholinguistics.<br />

The old man the boat.<br />

The generic NP “the old” and the verb “to man” are much more rarely used<br />

than the NP “the old man.”<br />

The horse raced past the barn fell.<br />

The relative clause “raced past the barn” is not introduced by “which.”<br />

Monday, April 1, 2013<br />

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