High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A garden path sentence is a sentence for which the responder's most intuitive interpretation is an incorrect one, ultimately luring them to an improper understanding of it. Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that, while reading, human beings process language one word at a time. The "garden path" is a reference to the saying "to be led up the garden path", meaning "to be misled". As a person reads a garden path sentence, they establish a meaning structure one word at a time. At some point, it becomes clear to the responder that they have been building an incorrect structure; the next word or phrase does not agree with the path the responder has been led down. Garden path sentences are rare in spoken communication, because the prosodic qualities of speech (such as the stress) and the tone of voice serve to remedy ambiguities encountered in text.

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