Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics edited by Yukio Otsu
Publication date: November 2006 ISBN4-89476-264-1 (Paperback) 4,200 yen+tax Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company 5-21-5 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Email: ja4i-mtmt@asahi-net.or.jp URL: http://www.hituzi.co.jp/

Contents

1. Factors in the Incremental Processing of NPs in Japanese
Edson T. Miyamoto 1

2. Probes, Goals and Syntactic Categories
David Pesetsky and Ether Torrego 25

3. Modularized implicit rules and specific linguistic categories, Japanese Unyo Test
Teodor Ajder 61

4. Prosodic Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication
Ho Leung Chan 87

5. Topics in Child Japanese
Noriko Hattori, Seiki Ayano, Dylan Herrick, David Stringer and Koji Sugisaki 103

6. Sloppy Readings of a 'Referential' Pronoun in Japanese
Misato Hiraga and Jon Nissenbaum 121

7. You Can't Unscramble an Egg
Takaomi Kato 145

8. Emergence of Bipolar Items in Romance
Masakazu Kuno 171

9. 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

10. Comparative Cinditionals in Japanese
Toshiko Oda 223

11. Coming and Going, Toing and Fronting: VP/PP Parallels in L1 Acquisition
David Stringer 247

12. Animacy and syntactic structure in sentence formulation
Mikihiro Tanaka 273

13. 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