Difficulty of Processing Japanese and Korean Center- embedding Constructions
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This research investigates the effects of syntactic, semantic, and morphophonemic similarity in the processing of center-embedding constructions in Japanese and Korean. Six Japanese experiments study the effects of syntactic and semantic similarity, while one Korean experiment deals with the effects of syntactic and morphophonemic similarity. The results from these experiments support the view that the difficulty of processing center-embeddings is in part explained by similarity-based interference in working memory.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005