Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
Publication date: November 2006
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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
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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

Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編） Publication date: November 2004
ISBN4-89476-227-7 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
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Contents
Introducing Exxtension
Ken Safir 1
Plato's Problem in Reverse: Apparent Lack of Acquisition despite Presence of Evidence
Lydia White 33
A Floating Analysis of Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Korean and Japanese
Duk-Ho An 63
Multiple Zibun
Tomohiro Fujii 87
The Specificity Condition is an Instance of Crossover
Yukio Furukawa 111
Japanese Disjunction and the Acquisition of Positive Polarity
Takuya Goro and Sachie Akiba 137
The Syntax of Ditransitives in Japanese: A Preliminary Report from Acquisition
Miwa Isobe, Natsuko Katsura, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa, Yumi Sakai, Koji Sugisaki, and Noriaki Yusa 163
Trigger for Acquisition of Scrambling
Bosook Kang 183
MEG Responses in the Comprehension of Japanese Sentences
Hirohisa Kiguchi and Edson T. Miyamoto 207
Structural Similarity as a Determinant for "Misanalysis" in SLA: How Japanese Learners Analyse the Left-Periphery of English Sentences
Chieko Kuribara 229
Children's Non-Local Interpretation of Quantification
Utako Minai, Luisa Meroni, and Stephen Crain 255
Reflexives and Split Intransitivity
Tomokazu Takehisa 277
Conceptual Access from the L2 in Less-Fluent and Fluent Bilinguals
Jeffrey Witzel and Naoko Ouchi Witzel 303

Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編） Publication date: November 2003
ISBN4-89476-209-9 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax
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Contents
"Verbal Adjectives" as Adjectives without Phi-features

Mark C. Baker 1
How parameters are set early and the order of setting

Maria Teresa Guasti 23
Specifics of Specifiers: A case study of Negation Phrases in Korean

Duk-Ho An 59
Difference at the Boundaries: Locating Linguistic Relativity

Yarrow Dunham, Peggy Li, and Susan Carey 87
Licit and Illicit Long Subject-to-Subject Raising

Tomohiro Fujii 109
Children's Asymmetrical Responses

Andrea Gualmini, Luisa Meroni, and Stephen Crain 135
How Children Avoid Kindergarten Paths

Luisa Meroni and Stephen Crain 159
The Acquisition of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese

Motoki Nakajima 185
Eliminating Late-merge: Reexamination of Anti-reconstruction Effects

Kayono Shiobara 197
Do Parameters Have Default Values? Evidence from the Acqisition of Engish and Spanish

Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder 215
Small Children's Big Clauses

Graciela Tesan and Rosalind Thornton 239
Direct Object Scrambling in Adult and Child L2 Dutch

Sharon Unsworth 265
It's Still Dark Here, Flick Another Switch On: Adult L2 Interlangugage Grammars in the Middle of Parameter Resetting

Maki Yamane 291
On the Distribution and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Japanese and the Phase-Impenetrability Condition

Hideaki Yamashita 313

Proceedings of the Third Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu
Publication date: November 2002

ISBN 4-89476-173-4 (Paperback) 3,800 yen+tax

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Contents

Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese

Angelika Kratzer and Junko Shimoyama 1-25.
Parameters: The View from Child Language

William Snyder 27-44.
Relevance Theory: A Tutorial Deirdre

Wilson and Dan Sperber 45-70.
Children's Command of Negation

Stephen Crain, Amanda Gardner, Andrea Gualmini and Beth Rabbin 71-95.
Acquisition of Phonological Sublexica in Japanese: An OT Account

Haruka Fukazawa, Mafuyu Kitahara and Mitsuhiko Ota 97-114.
On Null Subjects in Child Russian

Galina Gordishevsky and Jeannette Schaeffer 115-137.
Facets of Case: On the Nature of the Double-o Constraint

Ken Hiraiwa 139-163.
Syntax-Phonology Interface of Wh-Constructions in Japanese

Shinichiro Ishihara 165-189.
Early Acquisition of Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Japanese

Miwa Isobe 191-210.
Children's Knowledge of the Interaction between Binding Principles and QR

Hirohisa Kiguchi and Rosalind Thornton 211-234.
How Large Can Small Clauses Be?

Masakazu Kuno 235-259.
L2 Acquisition of Causatives by Spanish, Chinese and Japanese Speakers

Keiko Matsunaga 261-282.
Experimental Studies on Children's Undergeneration of NO with PPs

Motoki Nakajima 283-304.
Exclamatory Sentences in Japanese: A Preliminary Study

Hajime Ono 305-326.
Parameter Setting in the Acquisition of Japanese

Koji Sugisaki 327-349.
Information Structure and Innate Knowledge of Linguistic Principles

Cecile van der Weert 351-368.

Proceedings of the Second Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu
Publication date: December 2001
ISBN 4-89476-149-1 (Paperback)
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Contents

Three Years of Continuous Acquisition
Luisa Meroni, Andrea Gualmini and Stephen Crain 1-33.
Movement and q-Roles: A Case Study with Resultatives
Mamoru Saito 35-60.
Children's Interpretation of Universal Quantifier and Pragmatic Interference
Takuya Gouro, Hanae Norita, Motoki Nakajima, and Ken-ichi Ariji 61-78.
Wealth of the Stimulus> L2 Acquisition of French Object Clitics
Julia Herschensohn 79-96.
Coordination without Coordinator
Hironobu Kasai and Shoichi Takahashi 97-117.
Why does movement sometimes leave a trace and sometimes not?
Masakazu Kuno 119-144.
The Acquisition of Quantificational Expressions of English-speaking Children and Japanese-speaking Children
Shigeko Matsufuji 145-162.
The lack of Root Infinitives in Child Hebrew and Deictic Anchoring
Jeannette Schaeffer and Dorit Ben-Shalom 163-186.
Some Asymmetries in Child Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications
Koji Sugisaki and Miwa Isobe 187-208.
Preposition Stranding and Double Objects in the Acquisition of English
Koji Sugisaki and William Snyder 209-225.
A-Movement in Early English
Rosalind Thornton 227-250.
Native Elements of Discourse Knowledge
Cecile van der Weert 251-274.
Grammaticality Judgment Patterns of English Left Branch Violations of Japanese Adult L2 Learners
Maki Yamane 275-283.

Proceedings of the First Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
Publication date: December 2000
ISBN 4-89476-131-9 (Paperback) 3,800 yen+tax
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Contents
Issues on Unaccusatives and Passives in the Acquisition of Japanese
Tetsuya Sano 1-22
Grammatical Null Objects in Child Spanish
Hanako Fujino 23-34
To Be Simple or Not to Be: Constrants in Optimality Theory
Haruka Fukazawa and Linda Lombardi 35-54
The Role of Constituent Length in Resolving Reanalysis Ambiguity
Yuki Hirose 55-74
Acquisition of Resultatives in Japanese and the Theory of Compounding Parameter
Miwa Isobe and Koji Sugisaki 75-92
Diachronic Accounts for the Idiosyncrasies of English Imperatives: Language Acquisition of Eighteenth Century
Takaomi Kato 93-112
Phrasal Compounds in English and Japanese: A Dynamic View
Chiaki F. Komatsu 113-132
-(S)ase- or Not: Input-Driven Acquisition of Causative Forms in Japanese
Hiromi Morikawa 133-152
Preposition Stranding and Prepositional Complementizers in the Acquisition of English
Koji Sugisaki, William Snyder and Daniel Yaffee 154-170
From One-way to Reciprocal Verbal Communication: The Early Stage of Pre-linguistic Development
Taeko Teramoto, Hideo Hayashibe, and Satoko Ichikawa 171-180
Japanese and Korean Children's L2 Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation
Melinda Whong-Barr and Bonnie D. Schwartz 181-200