Features matter

In this study, we investigated whether different morphosyntactic features, i.e., number and gender, play a role during the adult online comprehension of subject relative clauses (SRC) and object relative clauses (ORC), in Italian. This study was inspired by developmental studies showing that childre...

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Autores: Biondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414, Pagliarini, Elena|||0000-0002-8644-0984, Moscati, V., Rizzi, L., Belletti, A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2159989
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sentence comprehension
Relative clauses
Number features
Gender features
Self-paced reading
Relativized minimality
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spelling Features matterthe role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in ItalianBiondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414Pagliarini, Elena|||0000-0002-8644-0984Moscati, V.Rizzi, L.Belletti, A.Sentence comprehensionRelative clausesNumber featuresGender featuresSelf-paced readingRelativized minimalityIn this study, we investigated whether different morphosyntactic features, i.e., number and gender, play a role during the adult online comprehension of subject relative clauses (SRC) and object relative clauses (ORC), in Italian. This study was inspired by developmental studies showing that children struggle with ORC compared to SRC; yet, ORC comprehension improves if the head and the subject of the RC mismatch in relevant morphosyntactic features (e.g., number but not gender in Italian, based on the featural Relativized Minimality principle, fRM). We found that Italian adults read ORC more slowly than SRC verbs; moreover, ORC verbs were read faster in the head-subject number mismatch condition, while there was no facilitation in the head-subject gender mismatch condition, in line with developmental studies and fRM. We conclude that online parsing is feature-sensitive, that features are not all equally "relevant", and that current models should be refined to account for these differences.Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/310063https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2159989reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3100632026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Features matter
the role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in Italian
title Features matter
spellingShingle Features matter
Biondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414
Sentence comprehension
Relative clauses
Number features
Gender features
Self-paced reading
Relativized minimality
title_short Features matter
title_full Features matter
title_fullStr Features matter
title_full_unstemmed Features matter
title_sort Features matter
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Biondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414
Pagliarini, Elena|||0000-0002-8644-0984
Moscati, V.
Rizzi, L.
Belletti, A.
author Biondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414
author_facet Biondo, Nicoletta|||0000-0002-0200-4414
Pagliarini, Elena|||0000-0002-8644-0984
Moscati, V.
Rizzi, L.
Belletti, A.
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Moscati, V.
Rizzi, L.
Belletti, A.
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sentence comprehension
Relative clauses
Number features
Gender features
Self-paced reading
Relativized minimality
topic Sentence comprehension
Relative clauses
Number features
Gender features
Self-paced reading
Relativized minimality
description In this study, we investigated whether different morphosyntactic features, i.e., number and gender, play a role during the adult online comprehension of subject relative clauses (SRC) and object relative clauses (ORC), in Italian. This study was inspired by developmental studies showing that children struggle with ORC compared to SRC; yet, ORC comprehension improves if the head and the subject of the RC mismatch in relevant morphosyntactic features (e.g., number but not gender in Italian, based on the featural Relativized Minimality principle, fRM). We found that Italian adults read ORC more slowly than SRC verbs; moreover, ORC verbs were read faster in the head-subject number mismatch condition, while there was no facilitation in the head-subject gender mismatch condition, in line with developmental studies and fRM. We conclude that online parsing is feature-sensitive, that features are not all equally "relevant", and that current models should be refined to account for these differences.
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