This unique book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. It includes contributions by recognized researchers and emerging scholars.

This book directly supplements the research based on English, the head-initial language that has been the main target of research (and thus the need for other language type) Includes contributions by highly recognized researchers and collaborations by emerging scholars and established researchers The variety of comparably structured languages (Chinese, German, Basque, Japanese, Korean) covered in the book provide opportunities to examine phenomena cross-linguistically

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Acknowledgements .- Head-direction and its Effect on Comprehension and Production, Hiroko Yamashita, Yuki Hirose and Jerome L. Packard.- Part I Incremental Processing and Head-final Structures Rich Agreement in Basque, Leticia Pablos The Processing of Japanese Control Sentences, Jeff Witzel and Naoko Witzel Individual Differences in Sentence Processing, Nobuyuki Jincho and Reiko Mazuka.- Part II Prosody and Processing Prosodic Phrasing and Transivity in Head-final Sentence Comprehension ERP Evidence from German Ambiguous DPs, Petra Augurzky and Matthias Schlesewsky Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking, Yuki Hirose and Yoshihisa Kitagawa.- Part III Production of Head-final Structures The Production of Head-initial and Head-final Languages , Mikihiro Tanaka, Holly Branigan and Martin Pickering Incremental Sentence Production, Noriko Iwasaki The Status of Dative Constructions in Korean, English and in the Korean-English Bilingual Mind, jeong-Ah Shin and Kiel Christianson.- Part IV Corpus-based Approach to Processing and Production Subject Preference, Head Animacy and Lexical Cues, Fuyun Wu, Elsi Kaiser and Elaine Anderson Why Speakers Produces Scramble Sentences, Tadahisa Kondo and Hiroko Yamashita.- Part V Processing Relative Clauses in Chinese Filler-gap Processing in Madarin Relative Clauses, Jerome L. Packard, Zheng Ye and Xiaolin Zhou Animacy and the Resolution of Temporary Ambiguity in Relative Clause Comprehension in Madarin, Yowyu Brian Lin and Susan Garnsey Garden Path and the Comprehension of Head-final Relative Clauses, Chien-jer Lin and Thomas G. Bever Use your Headedness, Shukan Ng and Janet Dean Fodor.- Part VI Head-direction and Processing Theory On Being both Head-intial and Head-final, Markus Bader Intergration and Prediction in Head-final Structures, Shravan Vasishth Directionality in the Architecture of the Language Faculty, Barbara Lust.- Index.