In real-time sentence comprehension, the comprehender is often required to establish
syntactic dependencies between words that are linearly distant. Major models of sentence …

Major models of sentence comprehension assume that a verb triggers retrieval of preceding
thematic arguments from memory to establish argument-verb dependencies. If so, longer …

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between
linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics …

Many studies of human sentence processing assume that when a verb is input, preceding
thematic arguments are retrieved from working memory (Gibson, 2000; Van Dyke and Lewis …

The human working memory capacity is limited (Daneman and Carpenter 1980; Just and
Carpenter 1992; Osaka and Osaka 1992; Daneman and Merikle 1996; Engle et al. 1999; …

This study examined the processing of two types of Japanese causative cleft constructions
(subject-gap vs. object-gap) by conducting an event-related brain potential experiment to …

Expectation-Driven Facilitation in Japanese: Its Independence from Distance * Page 1
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25. Edited by Shin Fukuda, Mary Shin Kim, and Mee-Jeong Park …

In this study, three self-paced reading experiments were conducted to investigate if the
integration of the matrix subject and the matrix predicate is sensitive to distance between …

In sentence comprehension, linguistic inputs are associated with each other to complete
dependencies between them. Subject–predicate dependency is one of such dependencies …

1. Introduction: Processing of Relative Clauses Dependency formation is obviously one of
the key topics in sentence processing research. Relative clauses as shown in (1) are a …