Locality and parsing complexity

L Konieczny - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2000 - Springer
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 …

Bilingual sentence processing

EM Fernández - 2003 - torrossa.com
This monograph presents evidence from an interrelated set of experiments designed to
investigate aspects of sentence processing comparing bilinguals and monolinguals, testing …

Relative clause attachment in German, English, Spanish and French: Effects of position and length

B Hemforth, S Fernandez, C Clifton Jr, L Frazier… - Lingua, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Relative clause attachment in Dutch: On-line comprehension corresponds to corpus frequencies when lexical variables are taken into account

T Desmet, C De Baecke, D Drieghe… - Language and …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Desmet, Brysbaert, and De Baecke (2002a) showed that the production of relative clauses
following two potential attachment hosts (eg,'Someone shot the servant of the actress who …

[图书][B] Coherence-driven effects in sentence and discourse processing

H Rohde - 2008 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation provides a psycholinguistic investigation of the influence of discourse on
language comprehension. It examines factors that allow comprehenders to follow a …

Parsing preferences and individual differences in nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from eye movements

Y Cheng, J Rothman, I Cunnings - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Using both offline and online measures, the present study investigates attachment resolution
in relative clauses in English natives (L1) and nonnatives (L2). We test how relative clause …

Relative clause extraposition and prosody in German

C Poschmann, M Wagner - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2016 - Springer
Whether a relative clause (RC) can be extraposed has been argued to depend both on
contextual focus and on whether an RC is restrictive or appositive. However, no previous …

[图书][B] Implicit prosody in silent reading: Relative clause attachment in Croatian

N Lovric - 2003 - search.proquest.com
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 …

Emotional nouns affect attachment decisions in sentence completion tasks

I Fraga, A Piñeiro, C Acuña-Fariña… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
We report three sentence completion experiments in which we manipulate the emotional
dimension of the nouns in a complex noun phrase (NP) that precedes a relative clause (RC) …

Local and universal

N Grillo - Enjoy Linguistics!: Papers offered to Luigi Rizzi on the …, 2012 - pure.york.ac.uk
Cuetos and Mitchell 1988, and much subsequent work, report that speakers of different
languages differ in Relative Clause attachment preferences in complex NPs. These findings …