Tanenhaus and coworkers' eye movement study presented participants with different pictures for interpreting the sentence, "Put the apple on the towel in the box." Their results showed the importance of ____________________ in how we understand sentences in real-life situations.

A. the cooperative principle
B. local connections
C. environmental context
D. instrumental inferences


Answer: C

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