Structural computation and the role of morphological markings in the processing of Japanese.
In an SOV, strictly head-final language with otherwise relatively free word-order such as Japanese, disambiguating information including verb information is not available until the end of a clause. In such a language, a sentence theoretically has numerous possible syntactic structures before the ver...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 429 - 460 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct-Dec2000
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