This thesis aims to reveal the mechanisms and constraints involving in long-distance dependency formation in the static knowledge of language and in real-time sentence processing. Special attention is paid to the grammar and processing of island constraints. Several experiments show that in a head-final language like Japanese global constraints like island constraints are applied long before decisive information such as verb heads and relative heads, are encountered. Based on this observation, the thesis argues that there is a powerful predictive mechanism at work behind real…
Author: Yoshida, Masaya
Source: University of Maryland
Download Link: Click Here To Download This Report (PDF)
Reference URL 1: Visit Now
Reference URL 2: Visit Now