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SUBMITTER: Bulut T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6046449 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bulut Talat T Cheng Shih-Kuen SK Xu Kun-Yu KY Hung Daisy L DL Wu Denise H DH
Frontiers in psychology 20180709
A consistent finding across head-initial languages, such as English, is that subject relative clauses (SRCs) are easier to comprehend than object relative clauses (ORCs). However, several studies in Mandarin Chinese, a head-final language, revealed the opposite pattern, which might be modulated by working memory (WM) as suggested by recent results from self-paced reading performance. In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded when participants with high and low WM spans ...[more]