花园小径句式歧义现象分析

Garden Path Sentences and the Process to Their Correct Understanding

花园小径句式比较常见。这种句子的实际结构和意义与读者或听者最初接触时所理解的结构和意义不同。读者或听者最初对句子结构和意义的理解常常是不正确的,因此导致歧义现象的产生。花园小径句式的产生或是词汇歧义所致,或是由句法歧义带来。

Garden path sentences are not uncommon in languages. They are sentences that are interpreted with a different structure than they actually have. Readers or hearers more often than not have misunderstandings of their structures and meanings when they meet them at the first sight. Garden path sentences are caused either by lexical ambiguity or syntactic ambiguity.