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Processing and Producing Head-final Structures

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Editors:
  1. Hiroko Yamashita

    1. , Department of Modern Languages & Culture, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

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  2. Yuki Hirose

    1. Department of Language & Information Sci, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Jerome L. Packard

    1. , Department of East Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai, Urbana, USA

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  • This book directly supplements the research based on English, the head-initial language that has been the main target of research (and thus the need for other language type)
  • Includes contributions by highly recognized researchers and collaborations by emerging scholars and established researchers
  • The variety of comparably structured languages (Chinese, German, Basque, Japanese, Korean) covered in the book provide opportunities to examine phenomena cross-linguistically

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 38)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Incremental Processing and Head-final Structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Rich Agreement in Basque: Evidence for Pre-verbal Structure Building

      • Leticia Pablos
      Pages 3-21

    3. The Processing of Japanese Control Sentences

      • Jeffrey D. Witzel, Naoko O. Witzel
      Pages 23-47

    4. Individual Differences in Sentence Processing: Effects of Verbal Working Memory and Cumulative Linguistic Knowledge

      • Nobuyuki Jincho, Reiko Mazuka
      Pages 49-65

  3. Prosody and Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Prosodic Phrasing and Transitivity in Head-Final Sentence Comprehension – ERP Evidence from German Ambiguous DPs

      • Petra Augurzky, Matthias Schlesewsky
      Pages 69-91

    3. Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking1

      • Yuki Hirose, Yoshihisa Kitagawa
      Pages 93-110

  4. Production of Head-final Structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. The Production of Head-Initial and Head-Final Languages

      • Mikihiro N. Tanaka, Holly P. Branigan, Martin J. Pickering
      Pages 113-129

    3. Incremental Sentence Production: Observations from Elicited Speech Errors in Japanese

      • Noriko Iwasaki
      Pages 131-151

    4. The Status of Dative Constructions in Korean, English and in the Korean-English Bilingual Mind

      • Jeong-Ah Shin, Kiel Christianson
      Pages 153-169

  5. Corpus-based Approach to Processing and Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Subject Preference, Head Animacy and Lexical Cues: A Corpus Study of Relative Clauses in Chinese

      • Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser, Elaine Andersen
      Pages 173-193

    3. Why Speakers Produce Scrambled Sentences: An Analysis of a Spoken Language Corpus in Japanese

      • Tadahisa Kondo, Hiroko Yamashita
      Pages 195-215

  6. Processing Relative Clauses in Chinese

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Filler-Gap Processing in Mandarin Relative Clauses: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials

      • Jerome L. Packard, Zheng Ye, Xiaolin Zhou
      Pages 219-240

    3. Animacy and the Resolution of Temporary Ambiguity in Relative Clause Comprehension in Mandarin

      • Yowyu Lin, Susan M. Garnsey
      Pages 241-275

    4. Garden Path and the Comprehension of Head-Final Relative Clauses

      • Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Thomas G. Bever
      Pages 277-297

    5. Use Your Headedness: An Exercise in Psycholinguistic Exploitation1

      • Shukhan Ng, Janet Dean Fodor
      Pages 299-321
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About this book

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence processing had been achieved largely by investigating head-initial languages such as English. The goal of the present volume is to deepen our understanding by examining head-final languages and offering a comparison of those results to findings from head-initial languages. This book brings together cross-linguistic investigations of languages with prominent head-final structures such as Basque, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi. It will inform readers of linguistics with both theoretical and experimental backgrounds, as it provides accounts of previous studies, offers experimentally-based theoretical discussions, and includes experimental stimuli in the original languages.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Modern Languages & Culture, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

    Hiroko Yamashita

  • Department of Language & Information Sci, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuki Hirose

  • , Department of East Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai, Urbana, USA

    Jerome L. Packard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Processing and Producing Head-final Structures

  • Editors: Hiroko Yamashita, Yuki Hirose, Jerome L. Packard

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9213-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9212-0Published: 25 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3423-4Published: 02 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9213-7Published: 05 November 2010

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 407

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Syntax

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