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Garden path sentences mostly appear in analytic languages, where word order is heavily relied upon to establish the grammatical case and function in a sentence. Fusional languages, which establish grammatical function in a sentence through inflection and other types of relational synthesis mostly avoid this type of ambiguity because the relationship of a word to the surrounding words is marked by the way the word is modified.
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