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A Comparative Study on Ambiguity Resolution in Garden-Path Sentences Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence

Linguistics / 2025,7(4): 260-268 / 2025-12-05 9 4

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• Authors: Jiahao Liu
• Information:

  Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China

• Keywords:
  Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution; Garden-Path Sentence; Comparison Between Human and Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Model
• Abstract: The garden-path sentence is a paradigm for studying cognitive mechanisms. This study has found that both humans and artificial intelligence encounter difficulties in garden-path sentences. Humans face these difficulties due to limited working memory, while artificial intelligence relies on probabilistic choices based on big data. This research provides a theoretical foundation for further investigation into humans’ cognitive processing patterns and for the improvement of the next generation of artificial intelligence to make its cognitive models true-to-human, and for a presentation of a novel comparative research paradigm for studying human and artificial intelligence.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/lin.0704028 (registering DOI)
• Cite: Liu, J. H. (2025). A Comparative Study on Ambiguity Resolution in Garden-Path Sentences Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. Linguistics, 7(4), 260-268.