Which of the following describes a 'garden-path sentence' in psycholinguistic processing?
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Correct answer: A grammatical sentence that leads to a flawed first reading before requiring reanalysis
A garden-path sentence leads the reader down a familiar structural path until a specific word reveals that their initial syntactic parse was incorrect. The reader must then backtrack and reanalyze the sentence architecture to comprehend its actual meaning. A classic example is 'The horse raced past the barn fell.'
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