Anaphora and branching direction in Japanese.
This paper constitutes a response to Lust & Mazuka's (1989) defence of the Principal Branching Direction parameter and their critique of O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho's (1986) experiment, which purported to show that even children learning left-branching languages exhibit a preference for forward patterns of anaphora. Results of new experimental work with children learning Japanese are reported and shown to support the claim that there is a universal preference for forward patterns of anaphora in the early stages of language acquisition.
O'Grady
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Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822.
Cho
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Sato
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics