The missing-VP effect in readers of English as a second language.
English sentences with double center-embedded clauses are read faster when they are made ungrammatical by removing one of the required verb phrases. This phenomenon is known as the missing-VP effect. German and Dutch speakers do not experience the missing-VP effect when reading their native language...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 1204 - 1220 |
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