##  [Minimal Attachment Principle](/index.php/minimal-attachment-principle) 

  ##  [Minimal Attachment Principle](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/minimal-attachment-principle-0) 

  

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Definition

An incremental parsing preference that, when multiple syntactic analyses are possible, selects the analysis that requires adding the fewest new structural nodes or constituent attachments to the developing phrase structure; a processing heuristic used to reduce immediate representational complexity during real‑time sentence comprehension.