Article: Assessing Intervention Effects in Sentence Processing: Object Relatives vs. Subject Control.
2021 Volume 12, Page(s) 610909
Abstract: Object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relative clauses. Under Grillo's (2009) Generalized Minimality framework, complexity effects of object relatives are construed as intervention effects, which result from an interaction between ... ...
| Abstract | Object relative clauses are harder to process than subject relative clauses. Under Grillo's (2009) Generalized Minimality framework, complexity effects of object relatives are construed as intervention effects, which result from an interaction between locality constraints on movement (Relativized Minimality) and the sentence processing system. Specifically, intervention of the subject DP in the movement dependency is expected to generate a minimality violation whenever processing limitations render the moved object underspecified, resulting in compromised comprehension. In the present study, assuming Generalized Minimality, we compared the processing of object relatives with the processing of subject control in ditransitives, which, like object relatives, instantiates a syntactic dependency across an intervening DP. This comparison is justified by the current debate on whether Control should be analyzed as movement: if control involves movement of the controller DP, as proposed by Hornstein (1999), a parallel between the processing of object relatives and subject control in ditransitives may be anticipated on the basis of intervention. In addition, we explored whether general cognitive factors contribute to complexity effects ascribed to movement across a DP. Sixty-nine adult speakers of European Portuguese read sentences and answered comprehension probes in a self-paced reading task with moving-window display, comprising four experimental conditions: |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-02-02 |
| Publishing country | Switzerland |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2563826-9 |
| ISSN | 1664-1078 |
| ISSN | 1664-1078 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610909 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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