dc.contributor.author | Price, Iya Khelm | |
dc.contributor.author | Witzel, Jeffrey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-29T00:58:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-29T00:58:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24565 | |
dc.description.abstract | Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to:
• Structural expectations (Levy, 2008)
• Memory-based integration effects (Gibson, 2000)
• RC subject vs. object extraction difficulty differences (Lin & Bever, 2006)
In many languages, word order differences between SRCs and ORCs make it difficult to test among these accounts. Russian allows SRCs and ORCs to have the same linear word order (with case-marking distinguishing between the RC types). | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Relative clauses | en_US |
dc.subject | Russian language | en_US |
dc.subject | Object-extracted relative clauses | en_US |
dc.subject | Subject-extracted relative clauses | en_US |
dc.title | Relative Clause Processing: Evidence from Russian | en_US |
dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington. | en_US |