Cross-Linguistic Studies

Free Download Masatoshi Koizumi, "Cross-Linguistic Studies "
English | ISBN: 3110778807 | 2023 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 47 MB
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives compiles 31 state-of-the-art articles on Japanese psycholinguistics. It emphasizes the importance of using comparative perspectives when conducting psycholinguistic research.

Psycholinguistic studies of Japanese have contributed greatly to the field from a cross-linguistic perspective. However, the target languages for comparison have been limited. Most research focuses on English and a few other typologically similar languages. As a result, many current theories of psycholinguistics fail to acknowledge the nature of ergative-absolutive and/or object-before-subject languages.
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