Eye movements and processing difficulty in object relative clauses

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 71 - 86
• Main Author: Staub, Adrian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.07.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Behavioural psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Cognitive Processes; Eye Movements; Eye Movements - physiology; Eye movements in reading; Female; Fixation, Ocular - physiology; Form Classes (Languages); Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Information processing; Language; Language Patterns; Language Processing; Male; Memory; Methodology; Nouns; Parsing; Prediction; Production and perception of written language; Psycholinguistics; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Reading; Reading Comprehension; Reading Processes; Reading Rate; Relative Clauses; Research methods; Semantics; Sentence processing; Sentence Structure; Sentences; Sight; Syntactic parsing; Verbs; Young Adult; Sentence processing; Eye movements in reading; Syntactic parsing; Relative clauses; Human; Cognition; Grammar; Experimental study; Eye movement; Reading; Language; Information processing; Syntax; Sentence

It is well known that sentences containing object-extracted relative clauses (e.g., The reporter that the senator attacked admitted the error) are more difficult to comprehend than sentences containing subject-extracted relative clauses (e.g., The reporter that attacked the senator admitted the erro...