The Unexpected Lightness of the Main Verb: An Eye-Tracking Study on Relative Clauses and Trace Reactivation

A few studies on relative-clause processing report an unexpected facilitatory effect on the matrix verb that follows an  Object Relative (ORC) clause (e.g. Staub, Dillon and Clifton jr. 2017). In this study we present the results of a novel eye-tracking experiment that replicated this effect on Ita...

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Main Authors: Leonardo Concetti, Vincenzo Moscati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2023-09-01
Series:Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/15148