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Katsika, Kalliopi ORCID: 0000-0002-6736-4963, Lialiou, Maria ORCID: 0000-0002-9788-1443 and Allen, Shanley E. M. (2022). The Influence of Case and Word Order in Child and Adult Processing of Relative Clauses in Greek. Languages-Basel, 7 (3). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2226-471X

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Abstract

Previous cross-linguistic studies have shown that object relative clauses (ORCs) are typically harder to parse than subject relative clauses (SRCs). The cause of difficulty, however, is still under debate, both in the adult and in the developmental literature. The present study investigates the on-line processing of SRCs and ORCs in Greek-speaking 11- to 12-year-old children and adults, and provides evidence on relative clause processing in Greek-a free word order language. We conducted a self-paced listening task in which we manipulated the type of relative clause (SRC vs. ORC), the RC internal word order (canonical vs. scrambled), and the type of relativizer (relative pronoun vs. complementizer). The results showed that SRCs were overall processed faster than ORCs, providing evidence that children follow similar processing strategies to adults. In addition, accusative case marking facilitated the processing of non-canonical structures in adults but less so in children. Children showed heavy reliance on word order, as they processed nominative and accusative pre-verbal NPs in exactly the same way, while they were strongly garden-pathed in ORCs with post-verbal nominative NPs. We argue that these results are compatible with the Competition Model.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Katsika, Kalliopi UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6736-4963 UNSPECIFIED Lialiou, Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-9788-1443 UNSPECIFIED Allen, Shanley E. M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-665872
DOI:	10.3390/languages7030206
Journal or Publication Title:	Languages-Basel
Volume:	7
Number:	3
Date:	2022
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2226-471X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORKING-MEMORY; ACQUISITION; COMPREHENSION; LOCALITY; ANIMACY; ACCESSIBILITY; DIFFICULTY; COMPLEXITY; ONLINE Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66587