Syntactic complexity in the presence of an intervener: the case of an anomic Italian speaker

Karen Martini; Adriana Belletti; Santi Centorrino; Maria Garraffa

doi:10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.01.00104

Syntactic complexity in the presence of an intervener: the case of an anomic Italian speaker

Karen Martini, Adriana Belletti, Santi Centorrino, Maria Garraffa

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A robust finding from language acquisition, adult processing and individuals with language impairment is that certain Object Relatives and Object Questions are more challenging to comprehend and produce compared to Subject Relatives and Subject Questions and to other Object Relatives and Object Questions. Approaches informed by linguistic theory have been proposed to clarify the source of the difficulties with these sentences. Recent models support the idea of a grammatically based resource reduction that selectively affects sentences requiring the processing of an object dependency across an intervening subject similar to the object in relevant features (such as R for Relatives, Q for Questions, NP for lexically restricted noun phrases, Sing/Plur for number) (Garraffa & Grillo, 2008; Friedmann, Belletti & Rizzi, 2009). Whilst sentences like (1a-c) and (2a-b) are rather easy to compute, sentences like (1d) and (2c) appear to be hard.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.01.00104
Publication status	Published - 9 Oct 2019
Event	Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting - Duration: 27 Oct 2019 → 29 Oct 2019

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Conference	Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting
Period	27/10/19 → 29/10/19

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