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- Title
Mode of Disambiguation and Garden-Path Strength: An Investigation of Subject-Object Ambiguities in German.
- Authors
Meng, Michael; Bader, Markus
- Abstract
The article discusses garden-path effects in processing subject-object ambiguities in German language which differ with respect to the mode of disambiguation. It informs that in German, subject-object ambiguities may arise in relative clauses and declarative clauses. It is stated that in German, the wh-phrase may be treated as subject or be computed as subject-object structure, or the wh-phrase may be treated as accusative object and be computed as an object-subject structure. It is stated that critical disambiguating information is provided by the finite verb which in German main clauses always appears in second position in sentences.
- Subjects
GERMAN language; NOUN phrases (Grammar); VERB phrases; RELATIVE clauses; VERBS; CLAUSES (Grammar); SENTENCES (Grammar); TOPIC &; comment (Grammar); GRAMMAR
- Publication
Language & Speech, 2000, Vol 43, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0023-8309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00238309000430010201