Processing filler-gap dependencies in a head-final language

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-54

  Aoshima, Sachiko ^a,b   Phillips, Colin ^a   Weinberg, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Filler Strategy; Filler gap dependencies; Head final languages; Japanese; Parsing; Reanalysis; Scope; Thematic roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142759338     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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