THE EFFECTS OF CONTEXT TYPE IN DISAMBIGUATING RELATIVE CLAUSES IN TURKISH
Yasemin Aydın, Taylan Akal · Türkbilig / Türkoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi · 2025
By examining the processing difficulties incurred by relative clause ambiguities, significant findings are derived on how sentence processor works. The goal of the present study is to understand the effect of context types in relative clause attachment in Turkish. The situational and linguistic contexts are manipulated to observe if attachment preference differs in neutral and context-dependent settings via off-line and on-line tasks. The results reveal that NP1 preference observed in neutral contexts transforms into NP2 when both types of contexts bias NP2. Comparing the context types, the findings further suggest that linguistic context is more effective than situational context.