1. Relative clauses are not adjuncts : an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analysis
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Vernice, Mirta, Cecchetto, Carlo, Donati, Caterina, Moscati, Vincenzo, Sansonetti, Morgane, Structures Formelles du Langage (SFL), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)- Université Paris Lumières, Académie de Créteil, Campus Condorcet (UPLUM), Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF UMR7110), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Lumières (UPL), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work is supported/ partially supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the progam 'Investissements d’Avenir' (reference: ANR-10-LABX-0083), Vernice, M, Cecchetto, C, Donati, C, Moscati, C, Cecchetto, Carlo, and Université Paris Lumières (UPL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)
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Parsing ,Relative Clauses ,Clausal Complementation ,linguistics ,Syntax ,[SCCO.LING] Cognitive science/Linguistics ,[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics ,[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ,[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ,Relative Clauses, Clausal Complementation, Parsing ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
Relative clauses are not adjuncts: an experimental investigation of a corollary of the raising analyses. M. Vernice*, C. Cecchetto*, C. Donati^, V. Moscati° *University of Milan-Bicocca, ^Labex EFL/University Paris Diderot, °University of Siena ABSTRACT Relative clauses and more generally clauses modifying nouns have been at the center of a long debate in the last forty years, opposing largely diverging syntactic analyses, comparing relevant data and discussing perspectives. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this debate by adding novel experimental data on how these structures are processed in an online reading task. Two eye-tracking experiments were designed to investigate the temporal structural ambiguity that can arise between object relative clauses (object RCs
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- 2016