Abstract
Previous work on relative clause attachment ambiguity has observed both that speakers of different languages resolve this ambiguity with different biases and that one’s native bias is susceptible to attrition. Recently it has also been suggested that crosslinguistic differences in biases may be reduced to a syntactic difference, namely the availability of pseudo relatives. Integrating this with the multilingual data, the present poster explores whether attrition in attachment biases may be related to a change in pseudo-relative parsing. To that end, a sentence interpretation task was conducted. In that task, the availability of pseudo-relatives was manipulated. Participants consisted of native Italian speakers living either in Italy or an English-speaking country. Results indicated a clear effect of condition, but do not replicate previous findings of attrition. This latter finding is discussed with regard to re-exposure.