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Continuity in the Adult and Children’s Comprehension of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in French and Italian

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
Subject and object relative clauses have been studied from the point of view of language acquisition and adult sentence processing. In the adult sentence processing literature, subject relative clauses (RCs) are read faster than object RCs (e.g ...
Maria Teresa Guasti   +2 more
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Reading as a Predictor of Complex Syntax. The Case of Relative Clauses

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
BackgroundThe current study aims at better characterizing the role of reading skills as a predictor of comprehension of relative clauses. Well-established cross-linguistic evidence shows that children are more accurate in the comprehension of subject ...
Luca Cilibrasi   +3 more
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A Deficit in Movement-Derived Sentences in German-Speaking Hearing-Impaired Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Children with hearing impairment (HI) show disorders in syntax and morphology. The question is whether and how these disorders are connected to problems in the auditory domain.
Esther Ruigendijk, Naama Friedmann
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The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: Atypological perspective

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
This paper discusses the morphosyntactic properties of relative clause constructions in the Runyankore-Rukiga language cluster (Bantu, JE13/14, Uganda).
Asiimwe, Allen
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Наблюдения върху синтактичната реализация на предикати за емоционални състояния

open access: yesZeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2021
Observations on the Syntactic Realization of Emotional Predicates. The object of the analysis in the following paper are sentences with verbs for emotions (psychological verbs, Experiencer verbs) in the modern Bulgarian language.
Tisheva, Yovka
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Processing Chinese relative clauses: evidence for the subject-relative advantage.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented surprising evidence that object relatives in Chinese are easier to process than
Shravan Vasishth   +3 more
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Knowledge-how: Interrogatives and Free Relatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It has been widely accepted since Stanley and Williamson (2001) that the only linguistically acceptable semantic treatments for sentences of the form ‘S knows how to V’ involve treating the wh-complement ‘how to V’ as an interrogative phrase, denoting a ...
Habgood-Coote, Joshua
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Syntactic complexity and language contact: A corpus-based study of relative clauses in British English and Indian English

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2017
The aim of the present paper is to test the claim that contact simplifies language (cf. Kusters, 2008) by comparing the domain of relative clause formation in British English, a L1 variety, and Indian English, a L2 variety.
Tamaredo, Iván
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Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Production of Relative Clauses in Cantonese

open access: yesStudies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019
In the literature about processing of relative clauses (RCs), subject relatives (SRs) are reported to be easier than object relatives (ORs) in a number of languages, but the status of prenominal ORs in languages where the object follows the verb (SVO) is
Huang Jiaying, Donati Caterina
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CHARACTERISTICS OF WORKPLACE AGGRESSION IN MEDICAL PRACTICE [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of IMAB
Purpose: To study and analyze the presence of aggression in the workplace among medical professionals in emergency departments. Material/Methods: The study included 227 medical and non-medical personnel from emergency units in the Varna region ...
Stanislava Pavlova, Ivelina Dyankova
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