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Recency Principle Sentence processing strategy that argues that words or phrases are attached locally to the closest appropriate structure. Contrast Predicate Proximity.
Example:E.g. who had the accident would be taken to modify the colonel in: The journalist interviewed the daughter of the colonel who had the accident.
Topic: Syntactic sentence processing