The Principle of Minimal Attachment Refers to a

The principle of minimal attachment refers to a

A) rule of conversation governing how successive statements within a conversation are related to each other.
B) principle of speech perception determining the connection between adjacent phonemes.
C) heuristic used to determine the referent of pronouns within a sentence.
D) processing strategy in which the listener seeks the simplest possible phrase structure that will accommodate the words heard to that point.