Spoken Utterances of Garden Path Sentences Such as "The Cabin

Multiple Choice

Spoken utterances of garden path sentences such as "The cabin struck by the tree fell" are less likely to result in confusion than a written statement of the same sentence. Why would this be?

A) Spoken utterances are usually accompanied by extralinguistic factors and conversational inference.
B) Spoken utterances are processed more rapidly than written statements.
C) Written statements are accompanied by extralinguistic factors like visual interpretation that require more processing.
D) It is easier to verbally express prototypes than it is to visually express them.