How Do We Interpret Sentences? Parsing Strategies
How do we build sentences based on what we see and hear? What approaches do we take to work out what's being said? In this week's episode, we talk about parsing strategies: why we need them, what they do for us, and how they can sometimes lead us to making weird interpretations.
This is Topic #48!
This week's tag language: Tigrinya!
Watching our video on syntactic trees might help with this one: • Syntactic Trees and X' Theory
Other of our psycholinguistics videos:
Prime Time: • How Are Words Connected in our Minds? Priming
Just Hearing Things: • Phonological Illusions
Gender on the Brain: • Gender and Language Processing
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Sources:
The background of this, as well as the newspaper headline, can be found in Eva Fernandez and Helen Smith Cairns's book, Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics.
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