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Shravan Vasishth (2002)
Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: Processing Hindi Center Embeddings
Advisor: Shari Speer
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Abstract:
I used acceptibility rating tasks and self-paced reading studies to investigate three working memory-based theories' predictions regarding sentence processing difficulty in Hindi center-embedding constructions: Hawkins' Early Immediate Constituents (EIC), Gibson's Discourse Locality Theory (DLT), and Lewis' Retrieval Interference Theory (RIT). Two main issues were investigated: (a) the effect of definiteness marking on direct objects; and (b) the efffect of increasing head-dependent distance.
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