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 …

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 …

This paper reports a self-paced reading study that compares the processing difficulity
between object-gap and subject-gap relative clauses (RCs) in Japanese. The higher …

A variety of studies have reported that learners of English as a second language find subject
relative clauses easier to produce and comprehend than direct object relatives, but it is …

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 …

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 …

This research examines factors that influence the frequency and ease of processing of
relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese. We conduct a corpus study of RCs with …

This paper attempts to show that internally headed relative clauses in Korean can be best
characterized by their semantic and pragmatic properties, especially via lexically inherent …

Relative clauses in Japanese and Korean appear to represent a minimal contrast: modern
Japanese lacks the affixal complementizers characteristic of adnominal clauses in Korean …