Processing and comprehension of L2 English relative clauses by Farsi speakers

Abstract

I would like to thank them for their insightful feedback and suggestions for my presentation skills.Many thanks to my colleagues at the offices in the Harmony building, who have supported me and had to put up with my stresses and moans for the past four years and I am also grateful to the colleagues in the building OBS 23 for creating a quiet place for my eye-tracking experiments. Appreciation is due to Mrs Wubbolts, GSH coordinator, for preparing a suitable space in the OBS building as a private eye lab for me.I am deeply grateful to Dr Zohre Shiamizadeh for her insightful comments and for checking the relative clause sentences and the categories in the Farsi corpus. My gratitude extends to Sofia Bimpikou, Ting Huang, Floor van den Berg, Hongying Peng, Suzanne Dekker, and Sara Shoghi Javan for their participation in my pilot studies and their excellent helpful suggestions.I am grateful to the Iranian postgraduate students and my bachelor students studying Language in the Mind (B1, 2019) in the European Languages Department at the University of Groningen, who sacrificed their time for their participation in eye-tracking experiments. Appreciation is due to Iranians in Groningen and Iran who volunteered in helping me conduct my surveys in English and Farsi and recruiting participants I would like to thank my friends in Groningen for their hospitality and for recruiting participants for my several experiments: Beyda