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. 2017 Mar 30;8:389. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00389

Table 1.

An example of experimental sentences is provided for each condition.

Condition
(1) V-NP-subject Il poliziotto (S) che arresta i ladri (O) registra i nomi. The policeman (S) that arrests the thieves (O) registers the names.
(2) V-NP-object I ladri (O) che arresta il poliziotto (S) attendono in macchina. The thieves (O) that arrests the policeman (S) wait in the car.
(3) NP-V-subject Il poliziotto (S) che i ladri (O) arresta registra i nomi. The policeman (S) that the thieves (O) arrests registers the names.
(4) NP-V-object I ladri (O) che il poliziotto (S) arresta attendono in macchina. The thieves (O) that the policeman (S) arrests wait in the car.

English translations are presented in italics. The target noun is underlined and subject/object roles are indicated in parentheses. The asterisk () marks those conditions which are morphosyntactic violations in English.