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The garden path approach assumes that we implicitly follow two assumptions in comprehending a sentence. One, termed ________ means basically that we assume the syntax of a sentence is as simple as possible.
 
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   other, termed ________ means that we try to place the word currently being encountered into the phrase
   currently being constructed.
   a) minimal attachment; late closure
   b) late closure; minimal attachment
   c) garden pathing; parsing
   d) parsing; garden pathing

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Which of these is a garden-path sentence?
 
  a) They are cooking rocks.
   b) The horse raced past the barn fell.
   c) John went to the grocery store and bought a car.
   d) Susan walked up the garden path.

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The difficulty in processing garden-path sentences:
 
  a) confirms that the default structure in English syntax tends to be subject-object-verb.
   b) is evidence against the garden-path approach.
   c) is evident in reading times, but not in eye movements.
   d) applies to blind readers of Braille.
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God bless you! Helped my grade so much.
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