Subject preference in Ixcatec relative clauses (Otomanguean, Mexico)

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Abstract Subject preference in relative clauses (RCs) has been reported typologically diverse languages, but overall one notes that the number of languages analyzed experimentally remains extremely low. This paper presents experimental and natural evidence from Ixcatec, a critically-endangered Otomanguean language. Ixcatec is relevant to discussion on universal subject for having syntactically morphologically ambiguous object RCs can offer an unconfounded result. Study 1, picture-matching comprehension experiment, shows 63% are interpreted as RCs. Results reaction times show RC interpretations numerically faster than interpretations, this difference does not reach significance. Analysis three-hour, free-speech corpus 2 indicates transitive only slightly more frequent In conclusion, although data support preference, they also how weaker predicted.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Language

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1569-9978', '0378-4177']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.16055.ada