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标题：A Study on the Garden Path Phenomenon from the Perspective of Generative Grammar
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作者：Haojie Li ; Xiangkun Sheng
期刊名称：Journal of Language Teaching and Research
印刷版ISSN：1798-4769
出版年度：2017
卷号：8
期号：6
页码：1190
DOI：10.17507/jltr.0806.21
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Studies in the past mainly focus on the garden path phenomenon from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics. The adequacies of their explanations are different, but these theories are imperfect. This paper discusses the garden path phenomenon from the perspective of generative grammar. The author holds that the θ-attachment principle can analyze the reason of partial ambiguity of the garden path phenomenon effectively and the garden path phenomenon provides evidence for derivation by phase under the framework of MP in generative grammar. People can clarify the structure of the garden path phenomenon succinctly and enhance the understanding of language mechanism through the analysis of them from the perspective of generative grammar. The faculty of language, which is the biological object, must abide by organism operation law as well. The memories of human beings are limited and cannot load too many syntactic structures at one time. As a result, the faculty of language can simply deal with a limited structure at a time. Only the limited amount of structural information can be accommodated in the active memory and phased spelling can reduce the memory load.
关键词：the garden path phenomenon; generative grammar; psycholinguists; partial ambiguity; the active memory; θ-attachment principle; derivation by phase