How Do We Interpret Sentences? Parsing Strategies

[@sarafonfria]

I am studying for the subject of Psycholinguistics and my teacher recommended this video to review the topic of garden path. You explain it all so well. Thank you!!

[@eddeh0772]

My uni professor would call this the “Garden Parse” model, and chuckle to himself every... single... time...!

[@claudiasoler7328]

I have an exam in 8 hours and I think you just saved my life. Massive thank you

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How was the exam, did it went well ?

[@claudiasoler7328]

@@--itsmark--2690 I honestly don't even remember taking a subject that would lead me to need this video. So it probably went just fine 🙂 lol thanks for asking!! Have a lovely day 🌼

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[@IGIMYM]

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[@yukiwu5041]

I have a midterm in a few hours and you were able to explain more clearly what 62 slides failed to do. Thank you so much!

[@oriennerose9054]

This is all so cool, and I love the Firefly references too.

[@WMyArt1]

An excellent video. I love it for the knowledge it shares and as a means of practising listening. Though, it is a bit too fast for my non-native ears. Many thanks, once again.

[@localatticus4483]

Watching this while taking a break from writing a programming language parser. How fitting.

[@thelingspace]

+Sekai Kyoretsuna Haha, yeah, I can see how that'd be fitting. I don't know much about those, though! I'd be interested in hearing how they work, like how similar or different they may be. Or maybe I should go look some stuff up. ^_^

[@localatticus4483]

+The Ling Space | If you think you'd be at all interested, I'd highly recommend it. Even if you never work on anything of the sort, you'll still be learning something (and a cool something, at that). At a high level they're pretty similar to how we parse language. It first breaks the text into recognizable words (and other symbols) called tokens (which is technically not actually part of the parsing process, but it's important). Once it knows what it's trying to parse, it just scans down the line and choosing paths to take. Depending on what you want to parse, back-tracking may or may not exist in the parser. In cases where you don't you get much more strict rules on how paths are traversed, I guess similar to how in English sentences starting with 'would' or 'why' are assumed to be questions.

[@thelingspace]

+Sekai Kyoretsuna That actually does sound quite interesting! I'll try to find some stuff to try. And it'll probably help me think more about natural language parsers, too. Of course, we still need backtracking in sentences that look like they're questions, or things can still get confused. But it's true that we do a lot of predicting about what's coming up, as well; we'll come back to talk about that more in a future episode. ^_^

[@gerganakaymakanova6320]

Absolutely grateful for this!!!

[@jdaster64]

Great video! I'd heard about garden path sentences before, and it seems pretty reasonable why you'd have to think twice to understand them. The one about the captain that everyone trusted really caught me off guard, though; I didn't even figure out the second meaning until you pointed it out!

[@thelingspace]

+llproductions2006 Yeah, some of these are really tricky! The more that you study these kinds of sentences, the easier it is to spot the ambiguities. But without that, I doubt I'd spot nearly as many as I do, either. ^_^

[@Goldenliz01]

Thank you! this really helped me understand my psychology of language content!

[@pardybedros3732]

Thank you!

[@jimnewton4534]

Zoe told the captain that everyone trusted the story. Yes there are two meanings possible. However, the speaker would pronounce the sentences differently. I doubt the listener would be confused. If I'm talked about a trusted captain, I'd emphasize "trusted" differently and and paise before continuing. Is this pause the time it takes the parser to find the next node up in the tree to connect "the story" to?

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

no its just normal prosody at work

[@butterworthdaniel6363]

nice video, I'm having psycholinguistics​ this semester. hopefully this could help 😊

[@caitthecat]

About to write my psych ling exam! Thanks for this!

[@laurenmaynard6336]

All the sentences sounded familiar and then the last one mentioned Zoe and the Captain and I kind of tilted my head. Then I noticed the shirt and I felt my brain explode hahaha

[@CamdenBassett]

I like the references to Firefly.

[@thelingspace]

Great! Glad you got them. We have a lot of fun slotting things in. ^^

[@nohagamalenab2955]

Many Thanks! Your videos are really great. They are easy, illustrated and interesting. Greetings from Egypt :)

[@thelingspace]

+Noha Gamal Enab Thanks! Glad you're liking them. This is a fun topic; I really like thinking about how we go about interpreting language as it comes to us. ^_^

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[@thelingspace]

+devender kumar Great! Thanks for the kind words, we love hearing that. ^_^

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What a genius!!

[@soupy4099]

Garden path sentences!

[@thelingspace]

+Soupy Yep! Told you we had one about that coming up soon. ^_^

[@soupy4099]

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[@thelingspace]

+Soupy I hope you were still excited when you were done with it. ^_^

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The Ling Space Indeed I was! :D

[@dana.illust]

great video :) but a pause between phrases and sentences would be helpful - you're using a lot of jargon, and some time to process all the info would be appreciated. thanks

[@MagicAccent]

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[@thelingspace]

+MagicAccent Glad you like it! ^_^

[@danprieto_]

I have an exam tomorrow and this is possibly going to save my ass.

[@InsertTruthHere]

Good video! Now also get a good mic!

[@thelingspace]

Now that we've been through VidCon again, we've learned more about this, and we'll be trying to improve this again soon. ^_^

[@frankharr9466]

Have you all done a Scott Pilgrim reference?

[@ljk20001]

Apostrophe is da SHIT

[@miloudbouchefra200]

Thanks for giving me a very bad headache.

[@evitachristoph9380]

his voice goes up and down

[@Laundries]

I hate psycholinguistics

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

I am trained in cognitive and field linguistics and I too have some doubts about some classic bits of psycholinguistics.... what are you specifically reacting to? I may have a middle-ground opinion between yours and a die-hard fan. :)

[@Laundries]

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Thank you but fortunately and unfortunately I finished the course I was referring to in the comment with a C+ (terrible but I got through it).

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[@slonzo8491]

Thank you!