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  • The Unexpected Lightness of...
    Concetti, Leonardo; Moscati, Vincenzo

    Quaderni di linguistica e studi orientali, 09/2023, Letnik: 9
    Journal Article

    A few studies on relative-clause processing report an unexpected facilitatory effect on the matrix verb that follows an  Object Relative (ORC) clause (e.g. Staub, Dillon and Clifton jr. 2017). In this study we present the results of a novel eye-tracking experiment that replicated this effect on Italian. The advantage of ORCs is discussed under the hypothesis that subject-verb agreement in the matrix benefits from a general trace-reactivation mechanisms, subsumed from activation-based retrieval models (Lewis and Vasishth 2005).