The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences
and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …

We used a forced choice visual world paradigm to examine when listeners integrate case
when processing Korean, in native speakers and two groups of adult L2 learners. The L2 …

In languages with flexible constituent order (so-called free word order languages), available
orders are used to encode given/new distinctions; they therefore differ not only syntactically …

This article presents two reading comprehension experiments, using the sentence
correctness decision task, that explore the causes of processing cost of Japanese sentences …

This study investigated the role of prosody and word order in identifying the focus of
sentences in Japanese. Native Japanese speakers listened to sentences with different types …

Previous experimental studies have reported clear differences between native speakers and
second language (L2) learners as concerns their capacity to extract and exploit …

This study examines the contribution of constituent order, prosody, and information structure
to the perception of word-level prominence in Russian, a free word order language …

This study explored sentence processing in two typologically distinct languages: Korean, a
verb-final language, and Tongan, a verb-initial language. The first experiment revealed that …

This study investigates preverbal structural and semantic processing in Japanese, a head-
final language, using the maze task. Two sentence types were tested—simple scrambled …