Interaction Between Syntactic Structure and Information Structure in the Processing of a Head-Final Language

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• 作者：Masatoshi Koizumi ; Satoshi Imamura
• 关键词：Discourse context ; Incremental processing ; Japanese ; Processing load ; Syntax
• 刊名：Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：1
• 页码：247-260
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• 刊物主题：Psychology, general; Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6555
• 卷排序：46

文摘

The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interaction between syntactic structure and information structure occurs at the second NP (O of SOV and S of OSV), which, crucially, is a pre-head position, suggesting the incremental nature of the processing of both syntactic structure and information structure in head-final languages.