@inproceedings{LCNL:15, author={David S. Race and Maryellen C. MacDonald}, year={2003}, title={The use of "that" in the production and comprehension of object relative clauses.}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society}, abstract={We explore the interplay between production and comprehension by investigating why producers insert or omit the function word "that" in Object Relative Clauses, and how this choice affects comprehension. We present data from three experiments which suggests that producers insert "that" to alleviate production difficulty and in doing so create a distributional pattern of "that" use. Comprehenders are shown to be sensitive to these patterns. Implications for the interaction of comprehension and production processes are discussed.}, language={English}, URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/15.pdf}, }