Three eye-tracking experiments using the 'visual-world'paradigm are described that explore
the basis by which thematic dependencies can be evaluated in advance of linguistic input …

All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most
recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in …

On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical
('scrambled') structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [eg, Hyönä & …

This paper investigates the processing of long-distance filler-gap dependencies in
Japanese, a strongly head-final language. Two self-paced reading experiments and one …

In this thesis, I compare three different groups of language learners—nonnative (L2)
children, L2 adults, and first language (L1) children—in their acquisition of the same target …

The present paper provides evidence that the processing of verb final clauses proceeds
incrementally based on local information that becomes available with each word. The results …

We report the results from three cross-modal lexical decision experiments investigating
antecedent priming effects in Japanese. In the first two experiments we examined …

In natural languages some syntactic structures are simpler than others. Syntactically
complex structures require further computation that is not required by syntactically simple …

Two approaches characterize the current state of research in sentence processing. Both
approaches aim to arrive at a well-grounded analysis of relevant constraints the construction …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …