Garden path sentence

The wrong path effect (English garden path effect) refers to the phenomenon when a speaker of a language expression with multiple readings for incremental understanding first selects the wrong reading and corrected in the course, as he recognizes the error in the following context. Ludwig Reiners says in his book " Art style " of false intermediate sense.

Incorrect setting of spaces within composite nouns can provoke this effect.

Wrong track effects are used in psycholinguistic research, especially in order to investigate,

• Whether the listener or reader to calculate language understanding only one or more interpretations and
• Whether phonetic or prosodic cues are used to predict the following syntactic structure.

Examples

• In " Maria put their savings, which they had earned in the asparagus. " Is the usual reading style savings learned while asparagus harvest is correct.
• " In my house at the lake, the dam must be cleaned best with a duster. "
• The classic example from the English -speaking world is: " The horse raced past the barn fell. " This sentence can generally be understood properly only after several reading passages. This is here the reduced relative clause. Not reduced is the rate ( and thus it is easy to understand): (. " The horse that has been ridden past the barn fell ,") ". The horse raced past the barn did what fell"

Swell

• Helmut Glück ( ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 2000
• Field, J. ( 2004). Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts. Routledge, London / New York.

• General Linguistics
• Psycholinguistics