A reduced relative clause is a relative clause that is not marked by an overt relative pronoun or complementizer (such as who, which or that). An example is the clause I saw in the English sentence This is the man I saw. (Alternative unreduced forms of this relative clause would be that I saw, who I saw or whom I saw.) Another type is the "reduced object relative passive clause", a type of non-finite clause headed by a past participle, such as found here in the sentence The animals found here can be dangerous.
Reduced relative clauses often give rise to ambiguity or garden path effects, and have been a common topic of psycholinguistic study, especially in the field of sentence processing.
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