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

Masatoshi Koizumi; Satoshi Imamura

doi:10.1007/s10936-016-9433-3

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

Masatoshi Koizumi, Satoshi Imamura

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	247-260
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9433-3
Publication status	Published - 2017 Feb 1

Keywords

Discourse context
Incremental processing
Japanese
Processing load
Syntax

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Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Psychology(all)
Linguistics and Language

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