Features matter : the role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in Italian
Biondo, Nicoletta (University of Siena. Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences)
Pagliarini, Elena (University of Padova. Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies)
Moscati, V. (University of Siena. Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences)
Rizzi, L. (Collège de France (Paris))
Belletti, A. (University of Siena. Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana

Data:	2022
Resum:	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.
Nota:	L'Elena Pagliarini és personal docent del Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Sentence comprehension ; Relative clauses ; Number features ; Gender features ; Self-paced reading ; Relativized minimality
Publicat a:	Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol. 38 Núm. 6 (2022) , p. 808-820, ISSN 2327-3801

DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2159989

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