Processing and Producing Head-final Structures [Paperback]

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence processing had been achieved largely by investigating head-initial languages such as English. The goal of the present volume is to deepen our understanding by examining head-final languages and offering a comparison of those results to findings from head-initial languages. This book brings together cross-linguistic investigations of languages with prominent head-final structures such as Basque, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi. It will inform readers of linguistics with both theoretical and experimental backgrounds, as it provides accounts of previous studies, offers experimentally-based theoretical discussions, and includes experimental stimuli in the original languages.

This unique book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures.? It includes contributions by recognized researchers and emerging scholars.

Acknowledgements .- Head-direction and its Effect on Comprehension and Production, Hiroko Yamashita, Yuki Hirose and Jerome L. Packard .- Part I Incremental Processing and Head-final Structures  Rich Agreement in Basque, Leticia Pablos  The Processing of Japanese Control Sentences, Jeff Witzel and Naoko Witzel  Individual Differences in Sentence Processing, Nobuyuki Jincho and Reiko Mazuka .- Part II Prosody and Processing  Prosodic Phrasing and Transivity in Head-final Sentence Comprehension  ERP Evidence from German Ambiguous DPs, Petra Augurzky and Matthias Schlesewsky  Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking, Yuki Hirose and Yoshihisa Kitagawa .- Part III Production of Head-final Structures  The Production of Head-initial and Head-final Languages , Mikil“¡