{"pk":20916,"title":"Revisiting processing complexity of nested and cross-serial dependencies","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>In two web-based experiments, we compare comprehension difficulty between Dutch and German sentences with clusters of two or three verbs. In Dutch, such sentences involve crossing dependencies, whereas these dependencies are nested in German. Replicating the seminal finding of Bach et al. (1986), we find that the crossing (Dutch) structure is easier to comprehend than the nested (German) structure, although we find a different pattern of results in terms of where this difficulty manifests. The results are in line with predictions from the Dependency Locality Theory.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Regular Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w04m7v2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Himanshu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yadav","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Stefan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Frank","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Futrell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Irvine","department":""},{"first_name":"Samar","middle_name":"","last_name":"Husain","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Delhi","department":"Humanities and Social Sciences"}],"date_submitted":"2024-04-18T15:54:20.853000Z","date_accepted":"2024-10-22T13:11:07.826000Z","date_published":"2025-02-18T14:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/20916/galley/31559/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/20916/galley/31558/download/"},{"label":"XML","type":"xml","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/glossapsycholinguistics/article/20916/galley/31559/download/"}]}