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  <Title>A Competition-Ba sed Explanation of Syntactic Attachment Preferences and Garden Path Phenomena</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="271" end_page="272" type="concl">
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5 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In each of the examples of Section 4, the initial attachment of a phrase was incompatible with the remainder of the sentence. CAPERS can recover from an attachment error of this type exactly when the misattached phrase can reattach to the current phrase, with the current phrase &amp;quot;replacing&amp;quot; the misattached  the attachment to the I', the V node would be left without an NP complement.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> phrase in its original attachment site. If the p-node to which the misattached phrase was originally attached does not have an alternative a-node to activate, reanalysis cannot take place and a garden path results. The allowable attachment configurations are a direct consequence of the restrictions imposed by the competitive mechanism of CAPERS. The resulting initial attachment preferences, and the parser's ability or inability to revise the incorrect structure, account for the preferred readings of these temporarily ambiguous sentences, as well as the garden path results.</Paragraph>
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