An On-Line Study of Japanese Nesting Complexity

This paper reports the results of a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese in which the materials consisted of four versions of successively more nested syntactic structures. It was found that (1) people read the more nested materials slower than the less nested materials; and (2) the locus of th...

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Main Authors: Nakatani, Kentaro (Author), Gibson, Edward A. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cognitive Science Society, Inc., 2011-06-22T16:27:52Z.
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