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Meaning Through Syntax: Language Comprehension and the Reduced Relative Clause Construction
A new explanation is proposed for a long standing question in psycholinguistics: Why are some reduced relative clauses so difficult to comprehend? It is proposed that the meanings of some verbs like race are incompatible with the meaning of the reduced relative clause and that this incompatibility m...
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| description | A new explanation is
proposed for a long standing question in psycholinguistics: Why are some reduced relative
clauses so difficult to comprehend? It is proposed that the meanings of some verbs like
race
are incompatible with the meaning of the reduced relative clause
and that this incompatibility makes sentences like
The horse raced past the barn
fell
unacceptable. In support of their hypotheses, the authors show that
reduced relatives of
The horse raced past the barn fell
type occur in
naturally produced sentences with a near-zero probability, whereas reduced relatives with
other verbs occur with a probability of about 1 in 20. The authors also support the
hypotheses with a number of psycholinguistic experiments and corpus studies. |
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race
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The horse raced past the barn
fell
unacceptable. In support of their hypotheses, the authors show that
reduced relatives of
The horse raced past the barn fell
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naturally produced sentences with a near-zero probability, whereas reduced relatives with
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race
are incompatible with the meaning of the reduced relative clause
and that this incompatibility makes sentences like
The horse raced past the barn
fell
unacceptable. In support of their hypotheses, the authors show that
reduced relatives of
The horse raced past the barn fell
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naturally produced sentences with a near-zero probability, whereas reduced relatives with
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race
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The horse raced past the barn
fell
unacceptable. In support of their hypotheses, the authors show that
reduced relatives of
The horse raced past the barn fell
type occur in
naturally produced sentences with a near-zero probability, whereas reduced relatives with
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