ABSTRACT
In chapter 7, I presented results from four experiments in which we tested Japanese- and English-speaking children's processing of complex sentences. In this chapter, I discuss the results in light of the hypotheses we set out to test. I evaluate the significance of our results for the twin questions we introduced: (a) Are children's processing strategies continuous across devel opment? and (b) Are parsing strategies universal across languages? I discuss the three alternative scenarios for the development of children's language processing strategies and consider the implications of this study for the theory of natural language processing and first language acquisition.
