center embedded relatives in Japanese

[Michiro Negishi]

Dear all,

I was running a Japanese language version of Elman's grammar learning task
and realized that there can be no more than two levels of center embedded
RELATIVE clauses (thus not including "he says/knows that..." etc.) in
Japanese. I can even prove it... and  I'm sure it's a know fact.
I did some web search trying to find relevant papers with no success. Does
anybody know references? Or are there counter examples??

Any info. would be appreciated.
Michiro Negishi, Ph.D. Psychology Dept. Rutgers U.



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