Abstract
Summary In current experiments in psycholinguistics, it is very difficult if not impossible to differentiate the role of syntax from the role of semantics. In the present experiment, the use of artificial elements that do not convey any particular meaning enables us to study separately the influence of the formai complexity of the sentence on the processing duration. The material is composed of embedded structures and passive forms. Some of these structures are isomorphic to natural language sentences. The results show that durations for processing artificial sentences are ordered in the same fashion as durations for processing natural sentences. The results validate a model of the subject based on relation operations and inversion operations.
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