Integration Costs on Auxiliaries? - a self-paced reading study using WebExp
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Object relative clauses (as in 1b) are more difficult to process than subject relative clauses (1a) (King and Just, 1991). Dependency Locality Theory (DLT; Gibson, 2000) accounts for this effect in terms of long-distance dependencies: The integration cost at in (1a) is lower than at in (1b) because just one argument () needs to be integrated in (1a), whereas in (1b), two arguments (chairman and ) need to be integrated, and the distance between and is larger in (1b).
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تاریخ انتشار 2013