Re: USAGE: Garden paths

J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> As for "The horse ridden past the barn fell down", I
> find this sentence much better than "The horse raced...".
Well, much better in the sense of "not as bad", and, now that I think
about it, I might not even notice that structure if I heard it, but I'm
absolutely certain I'd never SAY a sentence like that.

> My position remains the same:  I contend that the variations in your judgements (and mine) are
> the result of processing difficulties (or lack thereof) and have nothing to do with the
> syntactic constraints on reduced relatives.
Well, maybe.  But in terms of *production*, for me it's definitely a
syntactic constraint.

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