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    "pk": 25981,
    "title": "Semantic, not positional distances between words affect processing difficulty for\nsentences with relative clauses",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Linearly organized structures in language are supposed to be easy, while hierarchical information is difficult to\nprocess. Traditional accounts attribute the difficulty of processing hierarchical sentences (the dog the man walks, barks) to\nthe long positional distances between dependencies (Gibson, 1998). Alternately, linear structures (the man walks the dog that\nbarks) are easier to process. In a sentence comprehension study, structure (i.e., positional distance between dependencies) was\nmanipulated (hierarchical versus linear), and congruency between the semantic and the positional dependencies, being either\ncongruent as in the dog the man walks, barks, neutral, as in the dog the man sees, walks, or incongruent as in the man the\ndog walks, barks (barks being syntactically dependent on man, but semantically on dog). The data show that structure did not,\nwhilst semantic-syntactic congruency did strongly affect comprehension, suggesting a striking new perspective on the cognitive\nversus formal complexity of human language.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Fenna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Poletiek",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Leiden University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jun",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lai",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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