Discussion Details
| Title: | Coordination and Listing Structures in Japanese |
| Submitter: | Paul Allum |
| Description: | Running reaction time experiments in psycholinguistics, I have found that
participants are faster to begin a sentence that has a listing structure rather than a coordinating structure when all other variables are kept constant. Specifically, I have contrasted two Japanese structures in the topic phrase of a sentence, coordination with 'to....wa' and listing with 'mo....mo'. As far as syntax is concerned, it has been suggested that the former structure involves two NPs under an overarching single NP, while the latter involves individual NPs that branch individually off the sentence structure. I wonder if there is any way to elucidate the conceptual or semantic differences between these two structures? I would suppose that such differences would not be unique to Japanese. |
| Date Posted: | 07-Apr-2008 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Psycholinguistics
Semantics Syntax |
| Language Specialty: | Japanese |
| LL Issue: | 19.1166 |
| Posted: | 07-Apr-2008 |
