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In head-final languages, the evidence for locality effect (e.g., Grodner & Gibson, 2005) is weak while anti-locality effect (e.g., Konieczny, 2000) has been observed robustly. In these languages, locality effect has been attested only in high memory load configurations (e.g., Vasishth & Drenhaus, 2011; Levy & Keller, 2013). We describe three self-paced reading experiments (N=50) to investigate whether locality effect can be seen in Hindi, using frequently occurring right-extraposed relative clause constructions in Hindi. The results show for the first time that locality effect can be observed in certain constructions in a head-final language without using high memory load configurations (cf. Vasishth & Drenhaus, 2011; Levy & Keller, 2013). The effect was observed even when the R-RC structure was highly expected. When prior discourse is used to increase the expectation of the RC, locality effect gets attenuated but it was not completely canceled (cf. Husain et al., 2014; Levy et al., 2012).
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