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Short article: The processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish: An eye-tracking study

Published:2009-10 Issue:10 Volume:62 Page:1915-1929
ISSN:1747-0218
Container-title:Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Author:

Betancort Moisés¹,Carreiras Manuel²,Sturt Patrick³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychobiology and Methodology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

2. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

3. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Abstract

A normative study and an eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of animacy on the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish. The results showed that object relative clauses caused more difficulty than subject relative clauses, but that animacy modulated this preference. The overall pattern was similar to findings in other languages. However, because of the syntactic characteristics of Spanish relative clauses, the results give novel insights into the processing mechanisms that underlie relative clause processing.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Physiology (medical),General Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,General Medicine,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology,Physiology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17470210902866672

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