Processing and Acquisition of Scrambled Sentences by Learners of Japanese as a Second Language
The Japanese language exhibits a free word-order phenomenon called scrambling. Because each noun phrase (NP) is case-marked with postpositional particles, it allows a freer word order than such languages as English. For simple transitive sentences, Subject-Object-Verb is the canonical word order whi...
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The University of Arizona.
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344218 |