Contrary to the major claim made in previous empirical studies, which is that the garden-path phenomena are either modeled by syntactic principles or by structural frequency, the findings here show that the same phenomena can be predicted without such structural information.
the work is neither a mere extended application of Corley and Crocker's work to a broader range of data, nor does it simply confirm earlier observations that finite state machines might accurately account for psycholinguistic results to some degree.