Professor conducts studies in China
When a clause like "the man who hit the ball is my father" appears in a sentence, English speakers' brains breeze through it, but the brain of a Chinese speaker hearing it in Chinese has to make an extra effort to sort out the meaning.
If the clause is "the man who the ball hit is my father" the opposite occurs. No problem for Chinese speakers. English speakers have to work at it.
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