Antecedent Reactivation in the Processing of Scrambling in Japanese

Basedon the resultsof threeexperiments, we arguethatnative speakers of Japanesearefasterin decidingthata word appearedin asentencepreviously readif the word wasinsidea scrambledconstituent(contraryto prior resultswhichwearguedid notuseanappropriatecontrolsentence). Theresultsarecompatiblewith theproposalthata filler-gapdependenc y betweenthescrambledconstituentandits basepositionhasto becreated whenthesentenceis processed.