Processing and Producing Head-final Structures

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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. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Rich Agreement in Basque: Evidence for Pre-verbal Structure Building....Pages 3-21 The Processing of Japanese Control Sentences....Pages 23-47 Individual Differences in Sentence Processing: Effects of Verbal Working Memory and Cumulative Linguistic Knowledge....Pages 49-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Prosodic Phrasing and Transitivity in Head-Final Sentence Comprehension – ERP Evidence from German Ambiguous DPs....Pages 69-91 Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking 1 ....Pages 93-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 The Production of Head-Initial and Head-Final Languages....Pages 113-129 Incremental Sentence Production: Observations from Elicited Speech Errors in Japanese....Pages 131-151 The Status of Dative Constructions in Korean, English and in the Korean-English Bilingual Mind....Pages 153-169 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Subject Preference, Head Animacy and Lexical Cues: A Corpus Study of Relative Clauses in Chinese....Pages 173-193 Why Speakers Produce Scrambled Sentences: An Analysis of a Spoken Language Corpus in Japanese....Pages 195-215 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 Filler-Gap Processing in Mandarin Relative Clauses: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials....Pages 219-240 Animacy and the Resolution of Temporary Ambiguity in Relative Clause Comprehension in Mandarin....Pages 241-275 Garden Path and the Comprehension of Head-Final Relative Clauses....Pages 277-297 Use Your Headedness: An Exercise in Psycholinguistic Exploitation 1 ....Pages 299-321 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 On Being Both Head-Initial and Head-Final 1 ....Pages 325-347 Integration and Prediction in Head-Final Structures....Pages 349-367 Directionality in the Architecture of the Language Faculty: Integrating with Real Time....Pages 369-394 Erratum to: The Processing of Japanese Control Sentences....Pages E1-E6 Back Matter....Pages 395-407