Presentation	2009-07-19 Discourse and relative clauses : Building a more complete model of expectations in language processing Douglas ROLAND,
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Abstract(in English)	We present corpus evidence that object relative clauses nearly always contain old information while subject relatives frequently contain new information, suggesting that object relatives are more unnatural than subject relatives in isolation. We show that the difficulty found in processing object relatives is reduced or eliminated when an appropriate context is provided. We conclude that previous results showing that object relatives are more difficult than subject relatives are due to the lack of context, and that results showing that pronominal object relatives are easier than those with full noun phrases are due to discourse factors rather than memory factors.
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Keyword(in English)	Sentence processing / Relative clauses / Discourse
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Conference Date	2009/7/11(1days)
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Title (in English)	Discourse and relative clauses : Building a more complete model of expectations in language processing
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Keyword(1)	Sentence processing
Keyword(2)	Relative clauses
Keyword(3)	Discourse
1st Author's Name	Douglas ROLAND
1st Author's Affiliation	Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York()
Date	2009-07-19
Paper #	TL2009-23
Volume (vol)	vol.109
Number (no)	140
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	6
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