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What's good about context$-$first theories of syntactic parsing?

They are based on knowiedge we have about the proper grammatical rules, such as that we should not start or end sentences with a preposition.

They explain the fact that people interpret "Fred included the package for Susan" and "Fred carried the package for Sursm "ifferentlyeven though the senterces are of the samelength.

They combine models of lexical access $($showing that multiple meaning of words are activated at ance$)$ and models of syntuctic processing isfowving that mustiple trees are built at once$).$

They explain the fact that people build the same syntactic tree no matter what words they hear; that is the syntactic tree for the first interprecations of "Fred included the package for Susan' and "Fred carried the package for Susan' are the sam$.$

Bear my selection