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SUBMITTER: Frank SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6754359 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frank Stefan L SL Ernst Patty P
Psychological research 20180423 7
When the middle verb phrase is removed from an English double-embedded sentence, the remainder of the sentence is read faster in spite of the ungrammaticality. It has been shown that this "missing-VP effect" is reversed in German and Dutch. The current study demonstrates that the same cross-linguistic difference holds for sentences judgments: Native speakers consider English double-embedded sentences more comprehensible and acceptable when the middle verb phrase is removed, whereas the same is n ...[more]