The asymmetry in the processing of subject (S) and object (O) relative clauses (RC) is well documented; however, this asymmetry has only been studied in sentences with transitive activity predicates (ACT), while there has been no evidence reported regarding the processing of RCs with psychological predicates. In Spanish, third class psychological predicates (PSY), such as 'gustar', differ from ACTs in their syntactic structure. In this study, we carried out an auditory sentence comprehension task in which we manipulated the type of RC (SRC/ORC) and the type of predicate (ACT/PSY). Our results point to a structure-dependent account of the RCs processing asymmetries.
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