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On the nature of the discourse effect on extraction in Japanese

Glossa (London), 2019-08, Vol.4 (1) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 2397-1835 ;EISSN: 2397-1835 ;DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.822

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  • Title:
    On the nature of the discourse effect on extraction in Japanese
  • Author: Yano, Masataka
  • Subjects: D-linking ; filler-gap dependency ; island effect ; Japanese ; processing
  • Is Part Of: Glossa (London), 2019-08, Vol.4 (1)
  • Description: The present study tested whether the D-linked object moves from its thematic position over the subject or it originates where it appears in non-canonical sentences in Japanese. To this aim, we conducted acceptability judgment experiments that employed island effects as a diagnosis of movement and assessed whether the D-linking status of an extracted object of non-canonical OSV sentences escaped island effects. The results revealed that D-linking did not improve an acceptability of island violations, and therefore, a D-linked object of OSV does have a status of a moved constituent.The present result contributes to an understanding of a relationship between syntactic representation and processing of filler-gap dependencies. According to recent event-related brain potential (ERP) studies, non-canonical sentences with a filler-gap dependency elicits a P600 effect when there is no felicitous context, but they do not reveal any effect when the filler is discourse-old information. The present result is inconsistent with the interpretation that the D-linked filler does not have a status of a moved constituent, thereby resulting in no filler-gap dependency formation in Japanese sentence comprehension. Instead, the present result is consistentwith the view that the P600 effect is not a neural cost of the reconstruction but is elicited by other cognitive processes, such as the resolution of the unsatisfied presupposition encoded by scrambling.
  • Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2397-1835
    EISSN: 2397-1835
    DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.822
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
    DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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