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Canonical word order and interferencebased integration costs during sentence comprehension: The case of Spanish subject- and object-relative clauses Del Río Grande, David Pedro López Sánchez, Ramón Martín Aragoneses, María Teresa Canonicity Self-paced reading Syntactic processing Thematic roles Working memory Psicología (Psicología) 61 Psicología Object-relative clauses are generally harder to process than subject-relative clauses. Increased processing costs for object-relatives have been attributed either to working memory demands for the establishment of long-distance dependencies or to difficulties processing unexpected, noncanonical structures. The current study uses self-paced reading to contrast the impact of both kinds of factors in Spanish object-relative clauses, manipulating the interposition of the subject of the relative clause between object and verb. In addition, object-relatives were unambiguously marked at their onset with the Spanish preposition “a”. Reading times increased at the onset and final regions of object-relative clauses, regardless of interference-based working memory costs, although interference costs may affect the processing of post-relative-clause regions. These results suggest that, beyond interference related working memory costs, end-of-clause integration processes may be affected by a preference for canonical structures, thus increasing processing difficulties when confronted with a noncanonical form. Depto. de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia Fac. de Psicología TRUE pub 2024-03-19T11:41:32Z 2024-03-19T11:41:32Z 2012-04-23 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102337 XXXX-XXXX 10.1080/17470218.2012.674951 eng Del Río, D., López-Higes, R. & Martín-Aragoneses, M. T. (2012). Canonical word order and interference-based integration costs during sentence comprehension: The case of Spanish subject- and object-relative clauses, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(11), 2108-2128, restricted access application/pdf Taylor and Francis