se their knowledge of English syntax to reduce their perceptual decisions is gone (Miller & Isard, 1963). It is the notion that if a sentence is grammatically correct, but lacks the syntactical component necessary for sentence comprehension the listener will not be able to understand the phrase structure (Miller & Isard, 1963).
Semantics also plays a key role in eliminating the number of class words that a listener will choose from during sentence comprehension. In the Miller and Isard (1963) case study the example sentence "the boy spoke a triangle" is grammatically sound, but lacks any real meaning (1963, pp.218). With this example it is suggested that the listener might be expecting to hear " the boy spoke a sentence" or "the boy drew a triangle" because these sentences work in accordance to the semantic rules "known ( and usually accepted) by all native speakers of English" ( Miller & Isard, 1963, pp.218). When there is a lack of a semantic component in a sentence, the sente
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