The majority of studies have been done in English. English is a head-initial language with rigid word orders. On the other hand, some other languages such as Japanese are head-final and have free word orders. This project investigates whether either of the two psycholinguistic views of processing dependency formation will be applicable to Japanese scrambling. Further experimental studies will be done in the near future.
Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension.
Sentence processing without empty categories. Extraction without traces. Proceedings of the 13th WestCoast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 365-384.