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.