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Psycholinguistic Remarks on the Processing of NPI licensing : Examination of the Japanese Shika-Nai Construction

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Abstract Most languages have lexical items that need to be licensed by a negation marker. These lexical items are termed negative polarity items (NPIs). This study investigated how NPI licensing is achieved in... on-line sentence processing, by analyzing event-related brain potentials (ERPs). In an experimenter-paced reading experiment, ERPs were recorded while participants read sentences containing the NPI shika and the negation marker nai (i.e., the shika-nai construction). The results showed that both the N400 and P600 components were elicited for sentences with a deviant shika-nai construction, compared to normal counterparts. This indicates that the license of shika calls for both semantic and syntactic processing. Furthermore, it is argued, on the basis of a comparison of the results of the present study and those of Saddy et al.'s (2004) ERP study on German, that the semantic stage is universally required in the processing of NPI licensing.show more
Table of Contents 1.序論 2.先行研究 3.本研究が扱うNSEと仮説 4.実験 5.考察 6.まとめと今後の展望

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