Honorifics: A sociocultural verb agreement cue in Japanese sentence processing
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Honorifics: A sociocultural verb agreement cue in Japanese sentence processing
Case marking is the major cue to sentence interpretation in Japanese, whereas animacy and word order are much weaker. However, when subjects and their cases markers are omitted, Japanese honorific and humble verbs can provide information that compensates for the missing case role markers. This study examined the usage of honorific and humble verbs as cues to case role assignment by Japanese nat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Psycholinguistics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0142-7164,1469-1817
DOI: 10.1017/s0142716410000111