In German, relative clauses can be positioned in-situ or extraposed. A potential factor for the variation might be information density. In this study, this hypothesis is tested with a corpus of 17 th century German funeral sermons. For each referent in the relative clauses and their matrix clauses, the attention state was determined (first calculation). In a second calculation, for each word th...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract This paper presents a self-paced reading experiment comparing the processing of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) and object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) in supportive contexts in Chinese. It is argued that lack of a consistent pattern in the literature fo...

Relative clauses have long been examined in research on first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition processing, a large body of has shown that object relative (e.g. ‘The boy the girl saw’) are more difficult to process than subject saw girl’). Although there different accounts this finding, memory-based factors argued play role explaining disadvantage. Evidence clause processing comes from ...

A number of different formal analyses of relative clauses have been proposed over the years. For example, the adjunction analysis states that the relative clause is adjoined to the modified noun; the antisymmetry analysis (formulated in Kayne 1994) posits that the complementizer phrase (CP) is the direct complement of the determiner (the determiner being the head of the nominal projection), and...