Features matter: the role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in Italian.
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...
| Publicado en: | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 802 - 821 |
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