Priority information used for the processing of Japanese sentences: Thematic roles, case particles or grammatical functions?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-332

  Tamaoka, Katsuo ^a   Sakai, Hiromu ^a   Kawahara, Jun Ichiro ^a   Miyaoka, Yayoi ^b   Lim, Hyunjung ^a   Koizumi, Masatoshi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Case particles; Grammatical functions; Japanese sentence processing; Priority information; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 20644455775     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-005-3641-6     Document Type: Article

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