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referential hypothesis
Explanation for some garden path sentences that argues that they are difficult because they make unsupported assumptions about entities that have been introduced to the discourse, and not because of any syntactic difficulty.

Example:
The classic garden path sentence The horse raced past the barn fell is argued to be difficult because the definite noun-phrase The horse presupposes a set of horses, from which one now is being singled out.

Topic: Interpreting sentences