El procesamiento de oraciones de relativo de sujeto vs. objeto en español
ISSN: 0214-3550, 1579-3702
Argitalpen urtea: 2006
Alea: 18
Zenbakia: 1
Orrialdeak: 55-74
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Cognitiva
Laburpena
Although a great amount of research has been carried out in English or German on the processing of subject vs. object relative clause, the evidence for this structure in Spanish is pitiable. To address this question, we ran a self-paced experiment in which Spanish readers were presented with subject and object relative clauses. We manipulated the animacy of preverbal noun phrases in order to evaluate if animacy is taken into account in a very early stage of processing. The data showed that object relative clauses were harder to process than subject relative clauses, as it has been exposed in other languages. Also data showed that animacy per se; do not guide the initial syntactic analysis. However, it seems that animacy helps in the re-analysis of object relative sentences. Results would be accounted by two models of syntactic processing, garden path model and lexicalist model.