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Frank, Stefan L.; Trompenaars, Thijs; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2016
An English double-embedded relative clause from which the middle verb is omitted can often be processed more easily than its grammatical counterpart, a phenomenon known as the grammaticality illusion. This effect has been found to be reversed in German, suggesting that the illusion is language specific rather than a consequence of universal…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Grammar