As people read a sentence, they group words into phrases based on both syntactic rules and semantic meaning simultaneously.

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- Syntax-first approach
- Interactionist approach 

Approaches to parsing

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

As people read a sentence, they group words into phrased based on syntactic rules. If their interpretation is wrong, they will look for new information to take into account to form coherency.

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