Presentation	2008-08-09 Raising-to-Object in Japanese and the Role of Topic/Nominative Case Markers in the Cognitive Processing Naoki KIMURA,
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Abstract(in English)	This paper reports a result of a psycholinguistic experiment concerning Raising-to-Object (RTO) and the role of the Topic/Nominative distinction in the subject NPs in Japanese. I argue that the parser is not always sensitive to string-vacuous-type raising like RTO, while the parser shows a strong sensitivity toward overt movements. Our result showed that the word order that involves the overt scrambling was significantly more difficult than the types involving RTO. This raises a further issue for the role of case markings on the subjects, whose distinction could also serve as a potential difficulty in the processing of the relevant construction.
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Keyword(in English)	Raising-to-Object / Topic / Nominative Case / Sentence Processing
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Title (in English)	Raising-to-Object in Japanese and the Role of Topic/Nominative Case Markers in the Cognitive Processing
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Keyword(1)	Raising-to-Object
Keyword(2)	Topic
Keyword(3)	Nominative Case
Keyword(4)	Sentence Processing
1st Author's Name	Naoki KIMURA
1st Author's Affiliation	Department of Linguistics, Tohoku University()
Date	2008-08-09
Paper #	TL2008-29
Volume (vol)	vol.108
Number (no)	184
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	4
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