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DOI: 10.1016/s0019-9958(64)90310-9
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“…Sentences with deep center embeddings are harder for people to remember than shallow ones Blaubergs and Braine 1974;Blumenthal and Boakes 1967;Foss and Cairns 1970;Larkin and Burns 1977;Miller and Isard 1964;Schlesinger 1968 . It is easier to remember a constituent that occurred just recently in the sentence than one that occurred several embeddings ago.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sentences with deep center embeddings are harder for people to remember than shallow ones Blaubergs and Braine 1974;Blumenthal and Boakes 1967;Foss and Cairns 1970;Larkin and Burns 1977;Miller and Isard 1964;Schlesinger 1968 . It is easier to remember a constituent that occurred just recently in the sentence than one that occurred several embeddings ago.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to interference from the intervening sentence constituents one might therefore expect center-embedded sentences to be more difficult to understand than right branching ones (cf. Miller & Isard, 1964;Yngve, 1960). However, while the model's performance does indeed suffer from interference by an intervening relative clause, there is another countervailing factor.…”
Section: Center-embedded Object Relative or Subject-subject Relative mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has long been observed that nested sentence structures like (1) are very dif cult to understand (Bever, 1970;Cowper, 1976;Gibson, 1991Gibson, , 1998Kimball, 1973;Lewis, 1993Lewis, , 1996Miller & Isard, 1964;Stabler, 1994 A syntactic category, A, is said to be nested (or centre-embedded) within another category B if B contains A, a constituent to the left of A, and a constituent to the right of A. In (1), the relative clause (RC) ''who the nurse .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%