BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Linguistics//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://linguistics.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Linguistics - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2158Z-1759960681.6222-EO-19712-27@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260618T083303Z CREATED:20250909T033141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T205016Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251024T170000 SUMMARY: Chung-hye Han colloquium: Resumptive pronouns in relative clauses link with head nouns in incremental processing DESCRIPTION: Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University) will give an in-person colloquium. Resumptive pronouns in relative clauses link with head nouns i n incremental processing Resumptive pronouns (RPs) in English have consiste ntly been shown to be unacceptable in acceptability judgment studies. Howev er\, in reading studies\, RPs have been shown to lead to faster reading tim es compared to gaps. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Chung-hye Han (Simon Fraser University) will give an in-person colloquium.

Resumptive pronouns in relative clauses lin k with head nouns in incremental processing

Resumptive prono uns (RPs) in English have consistently been shown to be unacceptable in acc eptability judgment studies. However\, in reading studies\, RPs have been s hown to lead to faster reading times compared to gaps. There are two compet ing interpretations of the fast reading times of RPs. Under one view\, RPs facilitate dependency formation with fillers in on-line processing (Dickey\ , 1996\; Hofmeister & Norcliffe\, 2013\; Hammerly\, 2022). Under the other view\, RPs are read fast because they are shallowly processed and not fully integrated (Morgan & Wagers\, 2018\; Morgan et al.\, 2020). In this talk\, I present two reading time studies using the Maze task with the gender-mis match paradigm that tested whether RPs in complex relative clauses establis h dependencies with head nouns in incremental processing\, and an off-line comprehension study that compared the comprehension of RPs and gaps. The fi ndings show that (i) RPs form dependencies with head nouns in on-line proce ssing\; (ii) dependency formation is easier across islands than across non- islands\; and (iii) sentences containing RPs exhibit enhanced comprehension versus sentences containing gaps. These findings suggest that even though RPs may not improve sentence acceptability\, the language processor is usin g them in real time to make connections with fillers\, and these connection s are especially facilitated in islands\, resulting in enhanced comprehensi on.

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