An ERP Study of Causative Cleft Construction in Japanese: Evidence for the Preference of Shorter Linear Distance in Sentence Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Yano, Masataka; Sakamoto, Tsutomu
Titel	An ERP Study of Causative Cleft Construction in Japanese: Evidence for the Preference of Shorter Linear Distance in Sentence Comprehension
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45 (2016) 2, S.407-421 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-015-9359-1
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Comprehension; Experiments; Evidence; Japanese; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Verstehen; Verständnis; Erprobung; Evidenz; Japaner; Japanisch; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	This study examined the processing of two types of Japanese causative cleft constructions (subject-gap vs. object-gap) by conducting an event-related brain potential experiment to clarify the processing mechanism of long-distance dependencies. The results demonstrated that the subject-gap constructions elicited larger P600 effects than the object-gap constructions. Based on these findings, we argue that the linear distance rather than the structural distance between the extracted argument (filler) and its original gap position is a crucial factor for determining processing costs of gap-filler dependency in Japanese causative cleft constructions. This argument indicates that (at least) some types of long-distance dependencies are sensitive to linear distance. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01