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Recency preference in ambiguous relative clause attachment in Turkish Preference in Ambiguous Relative Clause Attachment in Turkish
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Akal, Taylan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
In Turkish, Relative Clause (RC) attachment ambiguity arises when two noun phrases (NPs) in a genitive construction follow the (RC). The present paper studies Turkish RC attachment preferences of Turkish native speakers in two experiments through off-line comprehension tasks. While in the first experiment the main verb immediately follows the NP…
Descriptors: Turkish, Phrase Structure, Ambiguity (Semantics), Preferences