Use of semantic information to interpret thematic information for real-time sentence comprehension in an SOV language.

Recently, sentence comprehension in languages other than European languages has been investigated from a cross-linguistic perspective. In this paper, we examine whether and how animacy-related semantic information is used for real-time sentence comprehension in a SOV word order language (i.e., Japan...

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Main Authors: Satoru Yokoyama, Kei Takahashi, Ryuta Kawashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3568076?pdf=render