A key question in research on sentence processing concerns how sentences that have been misanalyzed are reinterpreted, and to what extent the parser’s attempts at revision are successful. Past work has shown that misinterpretations associated with a syntactic misparse linger even after the entire sentence has been processed (Christianson et al., 2001, Slattery et al., 2013). In two reading experiments, we sought to evaluate the level of representation that is responsible for misinterpretations of garden-path sentences. We combined reading measures with an offline comprehension task, which enabled us to conditionalize reading time analyses on correct versus incorrect question-answering performance. Our results suggest that reanalysis does not always result in a correct interpretation, either because the final interpretation does not always reflect the global structure or because reanalysis processes result in the creation of licit local trees but fail to generate a complete global parse for the entire sentence.

句子处理研究的一个关键问题是如何重新解释被错误分析的句子，以及解析器的修改尝试在多大程度上是成功的。过去的工作表明，即使在处理了整个句子之后，与句法错误解析相关的误解仍然存在（Christianson 等人，2001 年；Slattery 等人，2013 年）。在两个阅读实验中，我们试图评估导致花园路径句子误解的表征水平。我们将阅读测量与离线理解任务相结合，这使我们能够根据正确与不正确的问答性能对阅读时间进行条件分析。我们的结果表明，再分析并不总能得出正确的解释，