Animacy in processing relative clauses: The hikers that rocks crush
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Animacy in processing relative clauses: The hikers that rocks crush
For several languages, a preference for subject relative clauses over object relative clauses has been reported. However, Mak, Vonk, and Schriefers (2002) showed that there is no such preference for relative clauses with an animate subject and an inanimate object. A Dutch object relative clause as . . .de rots, die de wandelaars beklommen hebben. . . (‘the rock, that the hikers climbed’) did no...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.01.001