In the literature dealing with the reanalysis of garden path sentences such as While the man
hunted the deer ran into the woods, it is generally assumed either that people completely
repair their initial incorrect syntactic representations to yield a final interpretation whose
syntactic structure is fully consistent with the input string or that the parse fails. In a series of
five experiments, we explored the possibility that partial reanalyses take place. Specifically,
we examined the conditions under which part of the initial incorrect analysis persists at the …

In the literature dealing with the reanalysis of garden path sentences such as While the man
hunted the deer ran into the woods, it is generally assumed that people either completely
repair their initial incorrect syntactic representations yielding a final interpretation whose
syntactic structure is fully consistent with the input string, or that the parse fails. In a series of
five experiments, we explored the possibility that partial reanalyses take place. Specifically,
we examined the conditions under which part of the initial incorrect analysis persists at the …