“花园小径句”局部歧义之辩

A Debate on Partial Ambiguity of“Garden Path Sentence”

读者对"花园小径句"作出的不同理解与对歧义句作出的不同理解表面相似,但"花园小径句"和歧义句本质上是不同类型的句子,二者在理解者和理解顺序、理解方式和理解结果的可接受度、不同理解产生的原因等方面存在着显著差别。"花园小径句"不存在局部歧义之处,不可将"花园小径句"和歧义句相混淆。

Readers seem to have similar understandings of ＂garden path sentence＂ and ambiguous sentence, but the two kinds of sentences are different in the order, means, acceptability, causes of comprehension. ＂Garden path sentence＂ should not be confused with ambiguous sentence because there is no partial ambiguity in ＂garden path sentence＂.