Since this special temporary ambiguity phenomenon was first proposed by psycholinguist Bever in the 1970s。 it has been the hot topic among linguists and psychologists for ages。 By now we can pide the studies of garden path phenomenon into three stages according to emphases of the research。 From 1970s to 1980s, researches were conducted from the aspect of psychology and psycholinguistics。 Researchers put forward various sentence parsing models to explain this phenomenon。 Then since the late 1980s, scholars started to explore the production of garden path phenomenon based on grammatical analysis。 At that time it was believed that garden path effect was caused on account that interpreters offend against some syntactic rules。 Recently, researchers have begun to illustrate garden path phenomenon from comprehensive strategies。 Researchers are more concerned whether the interpreters are able to understand the garden path phenomenon。 Studies on garden path phenomenon in China have started in the 2000s。 Though in China studies on garden path phenomenon are at initial stage, different perspectives have been employed in the study of this subject。 Apart from the theoretical study, some researchers also employ garden path phenomenon to other researches of relevant subjects。 Those previous studies have made a lot of contributions to the later deeper studies。 This paper is designed to explore the garden path phenomenon in English。 The author illustrates some basic concepts and triggering factors。 What’s more, the author expounds the enlightenment of garden path phenomenon on interpreting humorous words and conundrums。 来,自.优;尔:论[文|网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

All in all, the research of garden path phenomenon is of considerable significance both theoretically and practically。 Through the exploration of how this sorts of sentences are mistakenly parsed, learners can have a good knowledge of the operation of human language processing mechanism。 It also helps English learners improve the ability to deal with garden-path sentence, which is of great benefit to learn and understand English language。