Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence,"Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results support
A)the syntax-first approach to parsing.
B)the interactionist approach to parsing.
C)the garden-path model to parsing.
D)both syntax-first and interactionist approaches to parsing.

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Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study supports the interactionist approach to parsing, which posits that both syntactic and semantic information are used simultaneously to comprehend language. Participants' eye movements were influenced not only by the syntactic structure of the sentence, but also by the context provided by the pictures. This suggests that both bottom-up information (syntax) and top-down information (context) are being used in the comprehension process.

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