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EntityQ1441734· pop 9· linked from 34 articles

garden-path sentence

grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect

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adverb

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digital object identifier

International Standard Serial Number

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natural language processing

psycholinguistics

Oxford University Press

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executive functions

intransitive verb

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syntactic ambiguity

principle of compositionality

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