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Studies on Garden Path Phenomenon in English

Author(s)

Rui Luo

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2017.07.003

Affiliation(s)

Zhoukou Normal University, China

ABSTRACT

Garden path phenomenon is a term that originated from psycholinguistic field. As a special temporary or local ambiguity in language processing, it has been widely explored and studied from aspects of semantics, syntax, pragmatics as well as psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics over the years, since it was first put forward by Bever in the 1970s. The research of garden path phenomenon is of considerable significance both theoretically and practically. This paper is designed to explore the garden path phenomenon in English through literature and examples. Some basic concepts and main triggering factors of garden path phenomenon are analyzed. This paper explores the triggering factors of garden path phenomenon from the aspects of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The major finding is that garden path phenomenon can help learners understand the operation of human language processing mechanism and improve their abilities to deal with garden path sentences, which is of great benefits to learn and understand English language.

KEYWORDS

Garden path phenomenon, ambiguity, triggering factors

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, July 2017, Vol. 7, No. 7, 371-375

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