Jim Mason
Dec 15, 2023

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Thanks, Jack. I enjoyed this very much. I came across this phenomenon as a graduate student in the 1960s and concocted several garden path sentences then. "The cotton clothing is made from grows in Mississippi." was one of mine. It's nice to see that it is still circulating in the wild.

I wrote an article about Garden Path Sentences here on Medium a couple of years ago: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/garden-path-sentences-bb923d7b74ce

In it I also included some examples of ambiguous segmentation of run-together strings of letters like

nooneshallownit , which can also have garden path effects.

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Jim Mason
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