%0 Journal Article %A Santi, Andrea %A Grillo, Nino %A Molimpakis, Emilia %A Wagner, Michael %D 2018 %T Processing relative clauses across comprehension and production: similarities and differences %U https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Processing_relative_clauses_across_comprehension_and_production_similarities_and_differences/7001627 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.7001627.v1 %2 https://tandf.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/12848174 %K Relative clause %K memory %K production %K comprehension %K syntactic dependency %X

We compare the processing of relative clauses in comprehension (self-paced reading) and production (planned production). We manipulated the locality of two syntactic dependencies: filler-gap (subject vs object gap) and subject–verb (centre-embedded vs right-branched). The non-local filler-gap dependency resulted in a longer embedded predicate duration, across domains, consistent with memory-based accounts. For the non-local subject–verb dependency, we observe longer reading times at the main verb, but in production a greater likelihood and duration of a pause preceding the main verb. We argue that this result stems from the cost of computing the restriction, which manifests as a prosodic break. In the context of the subject–verb dependency manipulation, we also revisit the source of interpretation break-down in multiple centre-embedding. Generally, our findings imply that memory-based accounts are adequate for filler-gap, but not subject–verb, dependencies and production studies can aid in understanding complexity effects.

%I Taylor & Francis