The Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
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Did We Really Solve Plato's Problem (Abstractly)
Cedric Boeckx
The Acquisition of Preposition Stranding and its Theoretical Implications
Koji Sugisaki
Processing of Gapless Dependency without Thematic Cues: A Study on Negative Adverbs in Japanese
Rosalynn S. Chiu, Hajime Ono and Hiromu Sakai
The Development of the Vowel System in 5 Year-Old Simultaneous French/Japanese Bilingual Children
Mami Fukushi, Marie Labelle and Lucie Ménard
Across-the-Board and Parasitic Gap Constructions: Cross-Linguistic Generalization
Masayuki Komachi
A Probe-Goal Approach to Parametric Variation in English, French and Mandarin Nominal Phrases
Yi-An Lin
Strength and Weakness of Children’s Interpretation of Modals
Vincenzo Moscati
Two Ways of Pronouncing "Unpronounceable" QR
Hiroki Narita
Rare: Two Types of Root Modals in Japanese
Kaori Takamine
Effects of Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Second Language Learners of English
Aya Takeda
String-Vacuous Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization
Kensuke Takita
Clitin Omission in Early Italian: Testing the "Informativeness Hypothesis"
Roberta Tedeschi
The Early Stages of Universal Quantification
Anna Notley, Britta Jensen and Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Detailed Phonetic Memory for Multi-Word Sequences
Travis Wade
Children’s Acquisition of Passives in Chinese
Ting Xu and Xiaolu Yang
Scope Assignment in Chinese: Why Children and Adults Differ
Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain
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TCP 2009 Conference Information

The 10th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics [TCP 2009]

- Invited Speakers:
Nina Hyams (UCLA)
Akira Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)

- Program NEW!!

- Date: March 13-14, 2009

- Place: Keio University Mita Campus Kita-kan hall


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The Proceedings of the Eighth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
ISBN978-4-89476-376-0C3081
Y9800E
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Contents
The Maximization of Falsifiability: How to Acquire the Logic of Implicatures from the Illogic of Experience
Tom Roeper
A Multi-Model Modal Theory of I-Semantics Part 2: Identity and Attitudes
Christopher Tancredi
Experimental Cross-Linguistic Constructions Reveal Universal Principles in Language Acquisition
Lamya Al-Abdulkarim
How DIFFERENT can (it) be for English and Japanese Children?
Nigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo, Gary Wood and Ruth Churchill
What Happens If a Complex NP Universal Accommodates Hotondo-Modification?
Yukio Furukawa
Scope Resolution in Child Language: A Test for the QAR
Andrea Gualmini
An Economy-Based Analysis of Optional Movement in German
Jiro Inaba
Acquisition of Telicity by Japanese Learners of English
Keiko Kaku and Nina Kazanina
Non-Syntactic Factors in Processing the ‘Not-Because’ Ambiguity in English
Yukiko Koizumi and Dianne Bradley
Project Both in Japanese, with a Case Study of Head-internal Relative Clauses
Hiroki Narita
On the Syntax of Two Types of Transitive V-te ar- Constructions in Japanese
Masashi Nomura
Bilingualism and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Scalar Implicatures
Michael Siegal, Ayumi Matsuo and Clair Pond
On the Existence of Subject Scrambling: An fNIRS Study
Koji Sugisaki, Yukika Nishimura, Noriko Hattori, Yasushi Inokuchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Mariko Ogawa, Yuji Okazaki, Waro Taki, Shinichi Unoh, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Etsuko Yoshida and Seiki Ayano
Does Stress Constrain L2 English Word Recognition?
Annie Tremblay

Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
Publication date: November 2006
ISBN4-89476-264-1 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents
Factors in the Incremental Processing of NPs in Japanese
Edson T. Miyamoto 1
Probes, Goals and Syntactic Categories
David Pesetsky and Ether Torrego 25
Modularized implicit rules and specific linguistic categories, Japanese Unyo Test
Teodor Ajder 61
Prosodic Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication
Ho Leung Chan 87
Topics in Child Japanese
Noriko Hattori, Seiki Ayano, Dylan Herrick, David Stringer and Koji Sugisaki 103
Sloppy Readings of a 'Referential' Pronoun in Japanese
Misato Hiraga and Jon Nissenbaum 121
You Can't Unscramble an Egg
Takaomi Kato 145
Emergence of Bipolar Items in Romance
Masakazu Kuno 171
Preferred Word Order in Japanese Correlates with Nonlexical -Perhaps "Supra-lexical"- Meaning: Evidence from Psycholinguistic Experiments
Keiko Nakamoto, Kow Kuroda, and Jae-ho Lee 197
Comparative Cinditionals in Japanese
Toshiko Oda 223
Coming and Going, Toing and Fronting: VP/PP Parallels in L1 Acquisition
David Stringer 247
Animacy and syntactic structure in sentence formulation
Mikihiro Tanaka 273
The Development of the Verb Category and Verb Argument Structures in Mandarin-speaking Children before Two Years of Age
Ling XIAO, Xin CAI, and Thomas Hun-tak LEE 299

Proceedings of the Sixth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
Publication date: November 2005
ISBN4-89476-264-1 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）

Contents
Syntactic Structure of Ditransitive Constructions in Japanese: Behavioral and Imaging Studies
Masatoshi Koizumi 1
Bilingual Lexical Processing: Contrastive Polysemies
Somsukla Banerjee, Achla M. Raina, and Harish Karnick 27
Double-gapped Relative Clauses in Chinese: Grammar and Processing
Shane Xuexin Cao, Helen Goodluck, and Shan Xingyuan 53
Children's Knowledge of Principle C in Discourse
Anastasia Conroy and Rasalind Thornton 69
Minimalist Parsing and Japanese: On Theory and Experimental Factors
Sandiway Fong and Yuki Hirose 95
Examining perceptual distance in phonological vowel reduction
Dylan Herrick 117
Syntax-prosody (mis-)matching in sentence production
Yuki Hirose 139
The Interpretation of Focus in Chinese: Child vs. Adult Language
Chunyuan Jing, Stephen Crain, and Ching-Fen Hsu 165
N'-Ellipsis Reconsidered
Makoto Kadowaki 191
L2 poverty of the stimulus at the syntax-semantics interface: Quantifier scope in non-native Japanese
Heather Marsden 217
Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-cleft
Chizuru Nakao and Masaya Yoshida 243
Remarks on the Scope of Nominative Objects in Japanese
Masashi Nomura 269
Exclamatives as Comperatives: Evidence from English and Japanese
Toshiko Oda 293
Children's Structuring of Motion Events: Syntactic Universals and Lexical Variation
David Stringer 319
"One" Issue in Acquisition
Koji Sugisaki 345