The interactionist approach to parsing states that
A)semantics is activated only at the end of a sentence.
B)semantics is activated as a sentence is being read.
C)the grammatical structure of a sentence determines the initial parsing.
D)semantics is only activated to clear up ambiguity.

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The interactionist approach to parsing posits that both the grammatical structure and the semantic context of a sentence interact to determine how it is parsed. This means that semantics is activated as a sentence is being read, and can influence how the sentence is parsed from the beginning.

The Interactionist Approach to Parsing States That