ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts related to topic discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book proposes the parameters in Universal Grammar (UG) with differential organization of processing strategies by the speakers of left-branching (LB) and Right-branching (RB) languages. Recency Effect used semantic and lexical probe latency tasks (PLT), the latter of which also used in Townsend et al. Both the recency effect and main and subordinate clause differences found in English-speaking children support the continuity hypothesis between child and adult processing. Traditional psycholinguistic models based on English processing of complex sentences, such as Bever and Townsend, implicidy assumed that all languages would be processed like English. Syntactic clause with a gap appears to be no less of a unit than a syntactic clause without a gap in Japanese children's processing of complex sentences. The longer Reaction Time (RT) on the clause following a gap may reflect the time required for anaphora resolution.
