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Ph.D. Dissertation

Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese (MIT, 1999)

Edson T. Miyamoto

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reanalysis in Japanese multi-clausal sentences

Comment: First half of this chapter has been revised and published as:

Miyamoto, E. T. (2002). Case markers as clause boundary inducers in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31. 307-347. PDF

Second half has been revised and published as:

Miyamoto, E. T. (2002). Reanalysis of clause boundaries in Japanese as a constraint-driven process. Language and Speech, 46. 23-52. PDF

Chapter 2: Relative clause attachment in Brazilian Portuguese

Comment: For a more recent set of results, see:

Miyamoto, E. T., & Finger, I. (2003). Processamento de relativas em português brasileiro (The processing of relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese). Proceedings of the XVII Encotro Nacional da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística (ANPOLL). Gramado, Brazil, June 2002. PDF

Chapter 3: Relative clause attachment in Japanese

Comment: A revised version appeared as:

Miyamoto, E. T., Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N. J., Aikawa, T., & Miyagawa, S. (1999). A U-shaped relative clause attachment preference in Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes , 14, 663-686. PDF

Chapter 4: Future directions

Comment: For related work on inner-speech suppression and relative clause attachment in Japanese, see:

Miyamoto, E. T., Nakamura, M., & Takahashi, S. (2004). Processing relative clauses in Japanese with two attachment sites. Proceedings of NELS 34 --- North East Linguistics Society (pp. 441-452). Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications. PDF

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