I am interested in making a psychologically valid model of human natural language understanding, and especially in a processing model for predicting when a sentence will be a garden path. While extending the Marcus deterministic parser to include noun-noun modification, several counter examples to Marcus' garden path prediction were found. In this paper I propose that when people encounter an ambigous situation that may lead to a garden path, they use semantics to decide rather than look ahead. I will present an extension to the garden path prediction mechanism of Marcus' parser to account for this and several experiments to test this theory.
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