Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject
relatives (SRs) in both pre-and postnominal position (prenominal relatives: Miyamoto & …

Subject relative (SR) clauses have a reliable processing advantage in VO languages like
English in which relative clauses (RCs) follow the head noun. The question is whether this is …

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 …

Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the
processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research …

Studies from many languages consistently report that subject relative clauses (SR) are
easier to process than object relatives (OR). However, Hsiao and Gibson (2003) report an …

In response to new theoretical claims and inconclusive empirical findings regarding relative
clauses in East Asian languages, this study examined the factors relevant to relative clause …

This dissertation explores the processing of syntactic (1) and anaphoric gap-filler
dependencies (2) in Korean relative and adjunct clauses ('because'clauses), using event …

Chinese relative clauses are an important test case for pitting the predictions of expectation-
based accounts against those of memory-based theories. The memory-based accounts …

This article examines the special processing characteristics of head-final relative clauses. As
head-final relative clauses superficially resemble other prenominal modifiers such as …

We investigated the role of discourse context in relative clause processing. We first
replicated Reali and Christiansen's (2007a) finding that pronominal object relative clauses …