Consider These Two Sentences

Multiple Choice

Consider these two sentences:
1. The lawyer who the judge addressed stood.
2. The lawyer who addressed the judge stood.
-Based on the work of Ted Gibson (1998) , which of these sentences will be more difficult to read, and why?

A) Sentence 1, because it contains an object relative clause
B) Sentence 1, because it contains two semantically similar nouns
C) Sentence 2, because it is more complex structurally
D) Sentence 2, because it contains a subject relative clause