The processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish: An eye-tracking study

被引：58

作者：

Betancort, Moises ^{[1
]}

Carreiras, Manuel ^{[2
]}

Sturt, Patrick ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ La Laguna, Dept Psicobiol & Metodol, Fac Psicol, San Cristobal la Laguna 39205, Santa Cruz Tene, Spain

[2] Basque Ctr Cognit Brain & Language, Donostia San Sebastian, Spain

[3] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

来源：

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 2009年 / 62卷 / 10期

关键词：

Syntactic processing; Eye movements; Animacy; Subject relative clause; WORKING-MEMORY; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; COMPREHENSION; CAPACITY; ANIMACY; COMPLEXITY; SENTENCES;

D O I：

10.1080/17470210902866672

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

A normative study and an eye-tracking experiment investigated the influence of animacy on the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Spanish. The results showed that object relative clauses caused more difficulty than subject relative clauses, but that animacy modulated this preference. The overall pattern was similar to findings in other languages. However, because of the syntactic characteristics of Spanish relative clauses, the results give novel insights into the processing mechanisms that underlie relative clause processing.

引用

页码：1915 / 1929

页数：15

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