@article {6149,
	title = {Seeing events vs. entities: The processing advantage of Pseudo Relatives over Relative Clauses},
	journal = {Journal of Memory and Language},
	year = {2019},
	month = {08/2019},
	pages = {128-151},
	abstract = {<p>We present the results of three offline questionnaires (one attachment preference study and two acceptability judgments) and two eye-tracking studies in French and English investigating the resolution of the ambiguity between Relative Clause and Pseudo Relative interpretations. This structural and interpretive ambiguity has recently been shown to play a central role in the explanation of apparent cross-linguistic asymmetries in Relative Clause attachment (Grillo \&amp; Costa,\&nbsp;2014;\&nbsp;Grillo et al.,\&nbsp;2015). This literature has argued that Pseudo Relatives are preferred to Relative Clauses because of their structural and interpretive simplicity. This paper adds to this growing body of literature in two ways. First we show that, in contrast to previous find- ings, French speakers prefer to attach Relative Clauses to the most local antecedent once Pseudo Relative availability is controlled for. We then provide a direct test for the Pseudo Relatives pref- erence, showing that Relative Clause disambiguation of strings that are initially compatible with a Pseudo Relative interpretation leads to degraded acceptability and longer fixation durations.</p>
},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.001},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X19300415},
	author = {Pozniak, Celine and Barbara Hemforth and Yair Haendler and Andrea Santi and Nino Grillo}
}
@inproceedings {grillo:hal-02925400,
	title = {Prosody of classic garden path sentences: The horse raced faster when embedded},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {pp. 284-288},
	address = {Pozna{\'n}, Poland},
	keywords = {complexity, embedding vs sisterhood, garden-path sentences, pace, Prosodic disambiguation},
	url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02925400},
	author = {Nino Grillo and Aguilar, Miriam and Roberts, Leah and Andrea Santi and Giuseppina Turco}
}
@conference {5848,
	title = {Processing unambiguous verbal passives in German},
	year = {2016},
	month = {09/2017},
	abstract = {<p>We investigate the effect of event-structure on the processing of passivization in German. In contrastto English, German passives are unambiguously verbal or adjectival. This feature allows for the study of passivization independent of any (verbal/adjectival) ambiguity confound. Paolazzi et al. (2015 AMLaP, 2016 CUNY)showthat,contraryto broadlyheld theoreticalperspectives, passive sentences are not inherently harder to process than actives. Complexity of passivization in English is tied to the predicate event structure: with eventive predicates, passives are read faster (as previously observed in the literature) and generate no comprehension difficulties (contrary to previ ous findings with mixed predicates). Complexityeffectswith passivization areonly foundwith stative verbs. The asymmetry is claimed to stem from the adjectival/verbal ambiguity of stative passives, in English. We tested the account bylooking at the processing of unambiguous verbal-passives in German across two (event vs state) word-by-word non-cumulative self-paced-reading studies in a moving-window paradigm that manipulated syntax (active vs passive), with each sentence followed by a comprehension question. The predictionbeing thatwhen the adjectival reading is no longer available, the effects observed with English statives, should disappear. The results supported this prediction, both online and offline (active- stative: 87\%, passive-stative: 88.2\% correct).\&nbsp;</p>
},
	author = {Nino Grillo and Artemis Alexiadou and Berit Gehrke and Nils Hirsh and Caterina Paolazzi and Andrea Santi}
}
@conference {4464,
	title = {Pseudo relatives are easier than relative clauses: evidence from Tense},
	year = {2015},
	month = {03/2015},
	address = {Los Angeles},
	url = {http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/836/docs/CUNY_program_web_reduced_edits_sponsors.pdf},
	author = {Nino Grillo and Barbara Hemforth and Pozniak, Celine and Andrea Santi}
}
@conference {4545,
	title = {Pseudo Relatives are easier than Relative Clauses: eyetracking evidence from tense},
	year = {2015},
	month = {09/2015},
	address = {Malta},
	author = {Nino Grillo and Barbara Hemforth and Pozniak, Celine and Andrea Santi}
}
