The Influence of Animacy on Relative Clause Processing

By W. Mak, Wietske Vonk, Herbert Schriefers. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Communicative efficiency in language production: Optional case-marking in Japanese (2015, background): “…in exactly the type of structure investigated here, previous work has provided evidence that animacy serves as a cue to sentence structure (Gennari & Macdonald, 2008; Kuperberg, Kreher, Sitnikova, Caplan, & Holcomb, 2007; Mak, 2002; Traxler, 2002; Traxler, Williams, Blozis, & Morris, 2005).”
Animacy in processing relative clauses: The hikers that rocks crush (2006, background): “To avoid unnatural sounding sentences, the relative clauses were not in the perfect tense (contrary to the experiments in Mak et al., 2002), but in the present or the simple past.”
Effects of noun phrase type on sentence complexity (2004, methodology): “As Mak et al. (2002) observe this points to the need to incorporate some notions of semantically driven analysis in models of sentence processing, an observation also present in King and Just (1991), who manipulated the degree of association between the critical NPs and the verbs in the relative…”
Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence (2007, background): “Recent work has explored the influence of the embedded noun phrase type on sentence complexity (Gordon et al., 2001; Gordon et al., 2004; Mak, Vonk, & Schriefers, 2002; Warren & Gibson, 2002).”
Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses (2007, methodology): “ Mak et al. (2002) showed that in German written corpora animate and inanimate heads are equally likely in subject RCs.”