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The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish

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    Identifier:  imarina:9173268
    Authors:  Aguilar, M; Ferré, P; Gavilán, JM; Hinojosa, JA; Demestre, J
    Abstract:
    © 2021 Elsevier B.V. The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC). We test the offline and online effects of the availability of an alternative structure, the pseudo-relative, on the parsing of relative clauses. It has been claimed that pseudo-relatives are preferred to relative clauses because of their simplicity at the structural, interpretive and pragmatic levels, and act as a confound in the attachment literature (Grillo, 2012; Grillo & Costa, 2014). Our results show that attachment preferences are modulated by the availability of pseudo-relatives in offline and online tests. However, when this factor is controlled, parsing of relative clauses in Spanish is initially ruled by principles of locality, which can eventually be overridden by other factors.
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    Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027721000433
    APA: Aguilar, M; Ferré, P; Gavilán, JM; Hinojosa, JA; Demestre, J (2021). The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish. COGNITION, 211(104624), 104624-104624. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104624
    Paper original source: COGNITION. 211 (104624): 104624-104624
    Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104624
    Journal publication year: 2021-06-01
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2026-05-09
    URV's Author/s: Aguilar Lopez, Miriam / Demestre Viladevall, Josep / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Gavilán Ibáñez, José Manuel
    Department: Psicologia
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
    Author, as appears in the article.: Aguilar, M; Ferré, P; Gavilán, JM; Hinojosa, JA; Demestre, J
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Psychology, experimental, Psychology, Psicología, Linguistics and language, Linguistics, Language and linguistics, Filosofia/teologia:subcomissão filosofia, Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística, Filología lingüística y sociolingüística, Experimental and cognitive psychology, Direito, Developmental and educational psychology, Cognitive neuroscience, Ciencias sociales, Ciencias humanas
    Author's mail: miriam.aguilar@urv.cat, miriam.aguilar@urv.cat, josep.demestre@urv.cat, josep.demestre@urv.cat, mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat, mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat
  • Keywords:

    Universality
    Syntax
    Syntactic ambiguities
    Relative clauses
    Relative clause attachment
    Reading
    Quality education
    Pseudo-relatives
    Preferences
    Parsing principles
    Locality
    Late-closure
    Language
    Humans
    Eye-tracking technology
    Eye-tracking
    English
    Context
    Comprehension
    Argument structure
    Cognitive Neuroscience
    Developmental and Educational Psychology
    Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
    Language and Linguistics
    Linguistics and Language
    Psychology
    Experimental
    Psicología
    Linguistics
    Filosofia/teologia:subcomissão filosofia
    Filologia
    lingüística i sociolingüística
    Filología lingüística y sociolingüística
    Direito
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciencias humanas
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