Animacy in processing relative clauses: The hikers that rocks crush
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The factors that might contribute to relative clauses with an animate subject and an inanimate object and the usual preference for subject in Dutch relative clauses are analyzed. Results from different experiments show that the animacy of the antecedent is not the decisive factor and in relative clauses with an inanimate antecedent and an inanimate relative-clause internal noun phrase, the usual preference for subject relative clauses is found.
Publication Name: Journal of Memory and Language
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-596X
Year: 2006
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Working memory, animacy, and verb class in the processing of relative clauses
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The working memory capacity of certain participants was assessed in three eye-movement monitoring experiments where they read sentences containing subject-extracted and object-extracted relative clauses. One of the observations suggest that sentences lacked helpful semantic cues, object-relatives were harder to process than subject relatives, and working memory capacity did not moderate syntactic structure and interpretation.
Publication Name: Journal of Memory and Language
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-596X
Year: 2005
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Absence of real evidence against competition during syntactic ambiguity resolution
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An argument against the constraint-based models of syntactic ambiguity resolution using evidence from eye-tracking studies is presented. With the help of a series of detailed simulations, it was found that there is a noticeable difference between the actual and claimed predictions of one of the main exemplar models hence the data is totally agreeable with at least one constraint-based account.
Publication Name: Journal of Memory and Language
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0749-596X
Year: 2006
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