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Direct linkArnold, Jennifer E.; Wasow, Thomas; Asudeh, Ash; Alrenga, Peter – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Three experiments investigated whether speakers use constituent ordering as a mechanism for avoiding ambiguities. In utterances like ''Jane showed the letter to Mary to her mother,'' alternate orders would avoid the temporary PP-attachment ambiguity (''Jane showed her mother the letter to Mary,'' or ''Jane showed to her mother the letter to…
Descriptors: Word Order, Syntax, Native Speakers, Sentence Structure
