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Direct linkGordon, Peter C.; Hendrick, Randall; Johnson, Marcus – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
A series of self-paced reading time experiments was performed to assess how characteristics of noun phrases (NPs) contribute to the difference in processing difficulty between object- and subject-extracted relative clauses. Structural semantic characteristics of the NP in the embedded clause (definite vs. indefinite and definite vs. generic) did…
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentences, Nouns, Phrase Structure
