In this paper, we will discuss accounts of cross-linguistic differences in attachment
preferences for relative clauses. In the first section, we will present an overview of data from …

We examined the production of relative clauses in sentences with a complex noun phrase
containing two possible attachment sites for the relative clause (eg,“Someone shot the …

The relative clause attachment section examines the nature of bias (if any) favouring high
attachment for sentences. The adjectival phrase attachment section examines Frazier and …

Two accounts of relative clause attachment will be discussed, the case-matching hypothesis
proposed by Sauerland and Gibson (1998) and the attachment-binding dualism (Hemforth …

This paper presents results from a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese investigating
attachment preferences for relative clauses to three ensuing potential nominal heads …

Long-distance dependencies have long been at the center of linguists' attention, and have
played an important role in the ongoing dialogue between theoreticians and …

This paper is aimed at testing the Pseudo Relative-First Hypothesis in Spanish, a proposal
that may settle the long-standing question of cross-linguistic variation in attachment …

This typological study based on data from a parallel text corpus is a two-step investigation of
selectives (“topic markers”). First, a set of selectives in 81 languages from all continents is …

Four experiments investigated attachment preferences in constructions involving 3 verb
phrases (VPs) followed by an attaching modifier. Readers preferred attachment to the most …