Two experiments, an off-line acceptability judgment study and an on-line self-paced reading
experiment, were conducted to tackle the question of locality-based preferences in sentence …

For several languages, a preference for subject relative clauses over object relative clauses
has been reported. However, Mak, Vonk, and Schriefers (2002) showed that there is no such …

This article investigates whether and how L2 sentence processing is affected by memory
constraints that force serial parsing. Monitoring eye movements, we test effects of working …

Abstract German, English, Spanish, and French versions of short (ia) and long (ib) relative
clauses were tested in written questionnaire studies. The noun phrases containing the …

The results of a self-paced reading study with German second language (L2) learners of
Dutch showed that noun animacy affected the learners' on-line commitments when …

When a relative clause (RC) follows two nouns (N1, N2) in a complex noun phrase such as
that contained in the example English sentence below, the preferred interpretation has been …

The present study investigates transfer effects in two groups of German learners of French
for ambiguous relative clause (RC) constructions. The first learner group had started to learn …

We report one production and one comprehension experiment investigating the effect of
animacy in relative clause attachment in Chinese. Experiment 1 involved a fill-in-the-blank …

Two accounts of relative clause attachment will be discussed, the case-matching hypothesis
proposed by Sauerland and Gibson (1998) and the attachment-binding dualism (Hemforth …

136 Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen tierten Untersuchungen (s. vor allem Lehmann 1984;
Zifonun 2001; Zifonun 2007). Dabei ist oft darauf hingewiesen worden, dass vorangestellte …