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The present study investigates the effects of lexical information in processing left clause boundaries in Japanese. Miyamoto (2002) proposed a mechanism in which the parser creates a left clause bound...ary before it processes a verb by using information of case-markers. I claim that the parser uses not only information of case-markers but also lexical information in processing left clause boundaries in Japanese. A self-paced reading experiment is conducted to verify this claim. The results are not easily reconcilable with a model that uses chiefly information of case-markers in processing left clause boundaries but fit with a model where left clause boundaries are created on lexical information in addition to information of case-markers. As for a mechanism in which the parser uses lexical information, I claim that the parser refers to a tentative theta-role (TTR), which was proposed by Sakamoto & Walenski (1998), and the creation of a left clause boundary is restricted by the sequence of case-markings and TTRs. The parser creates a left clause boundary iff these two conditions are satisfied.show more
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