kamide and colleagues (2003) investigated predictive language processes and found that after hearing only the first few words, japanese speakers kamide and colleagues (2003) investigated predictive language processes and found that after hearing only the first few words, japanese speakers avoided making the kinds of predictions about the end of a sentence that english speakers often make in similar studies. fixed their eyes on a picture of the subject of the sentence. wrongly interpreted grammatical cues to draw incorrect predictions about how a sentence might end. used specific grammatical cues to predict how a sentence might end.
