Fraizer and Rayner (1982) proposed the Garden-Path model as a method of sentence processing, used in case of ambiguous sentences. The model states that when a reader or listener comes across an ambiguous sentence, only one syntactic structure is primarily considered. When you get to a key point in the sentence, if the assigned meaning doesn't work, you have to go back and rebuild the sentence structure. After analyzing the sentence, we can then arrive at the correct explanation of the sentence (Harley, 2008). Much research has been conducted to support the garden path model and specifically the main principles it uses (Harley 2008). Studies of eye movements (Ferreira & Clifton, 1986) and self-paced word-for-word reading (Ferreira & Henderson, 1990) have also shown that we use the garden path parsing model when encountering ambiguous sentences. However, since the garden path model was first introduced, much evidence has challenged the main claims the model adheres to. Studies using EEG data have shown that we use knowledge of the world and the meaning of words very early in sentence processing, which strongly contradicts the distinct ideas of the garden path model (Hagoort, Hald, Bastiaansen & Petersson, 2004). There are also many theories that we analyze difficult sentences in a different way than suggested by the garden path model. For example, constraint-based theory suggests that we compute more than one syntactic solution at a time (MacDonald, Pearlmutter & Seidenburg, 1994) and the unrestricted race model (Van Gompel, Pickering & Traxler, 2000) proposes that semantic information is also used. in sentence processing. Therefore, this essay will...... middle of article ...... understanding. Science, 304, 436-441. Harley, T.A. (2008). The physiology of language. From data to theory. Hove: Psychology Press. Jackendoff, R. (2003). Foundations of language: brain, grammar, evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1994). Lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution. Psychological Review, 101, 676-703. Pickering, M. J. & Traxler, M. J. (1998). Plausibility and recovery from garden paths: an eye-tracking study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 940-961. Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct: How the mind creates language. New York: W. Morrow. Van Gompel, RPG, Pickering, MJ and Traxler, MJ (2001). Reanalysis in sentence processing: Evidence against current constraint-based and two-stage models. Memory Language Journal, 45, 225-258.