4.1. Behavioural
Based on the existing relative clause processing literature in Turkish, we expected to see lower accuracy and longer reaction times in ORC compared to SRC. Contrary to our initial expectations, behavioural findings showed no significant difference between the conditions. However, further investigations revealed some insights. Previous studies had used self-paced reading time tasks, while we measured reaction times. Therefore, a direct comparison with the existing literature can be misleading. As explained in the Methods section, there were trials where subjects could not answer the questions within the given time limit (i.e., 3 seconds). We found that there were 60 unanswered trials in total (combined for 13 subjects), 34 (57%) of which were in ORC and 26 (43%) of which were in SRC conditions. Furthermore, even though the difference in accuracy findings was not statistically significant, subjects tended to make more mistakes in the ORC condition compared to the SRC condition. These findings together imply an ORC processing difficulty in Turkish.