Abstract Spanish relative clauses, as in other languages, can contain a resumptive pronoun or other resumptive element. This study attempts to explain what factors favor the presence of such resumptive elements in the production of Spanish relative clauses. In order to do so, 1237 relatives clauses were extracted from an oral corpus of Peninsular Spanish conversations. A total of 18 factors, some new and some known from previous studies, pertaining to semantic and syntactic processing difficulties, were coded as potentially influencing the choice of a resumptive pronoun. Multivariate analysis (conditional tree and random forest) was then used to determine the significant factors and the most explicative minimal model. The results suggest that the conditions with the most impact are related to difficulties in determining the function of the relativizer. A discussion follows about how these difficulties relate to the different factors studied and how they could be due to a looser relationship between the clauses involved.

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西班牙相关条款中的恢复性元素和处理困难：多因素分析

与其他语言一样，抽象的西班牙语相对从句可以包含一个代词或其他代词。本研究试图解释哪些因素在西班牙相对条款的产生中有利于此类恢复性要素的出现。为此，从西班牙半岛对话的口语语料中提取了1237个亲属子句。总共18个因素，涉及语义和句法处理困难，其中一些是新的，一些是先前研究中已知的，被编码为可能影响一个代名词代词的选择。然后使用多变量分析（条件树和随机森林）来确定重要因素和最明确的最小模型。结果表明，影响最大的条件与确定相对剂功能的困难有关。随后讨论了这些困难与所研究的不同因素之间的关系，以及所涉条款之间的松散关系如何造成这些困难。