AU-shaped Relative Clause Attachment Preference in Japanese
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This paper presents results from a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese investigating attachment preferences for relative clauses to three ensuing potential nominal heads. Similar to previous results from the processing of English, Spanish and German, we observed the following non-monotonic preference ordering among the three attachment sites: most local, least local, intermediate. We discuss the result in light of two types of parsing models: models that only consider attaching a modier to candidate sites whose lexical heads have already been encountered, andmodels in which predicted categories are alsoconsideredas possiblemodication sites. We contend that the preference to attach to the least local site over the intermediate site
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