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Predicate Proximity Sentence processing strategy that results in the attachment of a noun-phrase modifier to the noun phrase that is closest to the verb in the main clause. Contrast Recency Principle.
Example:E.g. who had the accident would be taken to modify the daughter in: The journalist interviewed the daughter of the colonel who had the accident.
Topic: Syntactic sentence processing