Animacy or case marker order?: priority information for online sentence comprehension in a head-final language.

It is well known that case marker information and animacy information are incrementally used to comprehend sentences in head-final languages. However, it is still unclear how these two kinds of information are processed when they are in competition in a sentence's surface expression. The curren...

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Main Authors: Satoru Yokoyama, Kei Takahashi, Ryuta Kawashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3963992?pdf=render