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| Presentation | 2014-08-13 16:05 Corpus Frequency of Relative Clause Association in Japanese Toshiyuki Yamada, Douglas Roland, Manabu Arai, Yuki Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)  TL2014-35 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Previous studies show mixed results for the processing of relative clause (RC) association ambiguity in Japanese, as in [isi-ga syokusinsiteiru] kanzya-no ani ‘the brother of the patient (that) the doctor is palpating’, schematically represented as [RC] Noun 1 (N1)-GEN N2. Some studies show a preference for N1 association, whereas others show a preference for N2 association (e.g., Kamide & Mitchell, 1997; Miyamoto et al., 2004). Recently, Yamada et al. (2014) demonstrated that Japanese comprehenders adopt the N1 association initially but revise it to the N2 association as a second potential head noun is encountered. The question remains as to why such an unforced (i.e., syntactically not required) revision is observed. The current study sheds light on this question using Kyoto University Text Corpus, and examines whether there is a structural frequency bias towards the N2 association. The results of corpus analysis showed that when either association was semantically plausible, the frequency of N2 association was higher than that of N1 association. They also indicated no bias towards the N2 association when the referents of N1 and N2 were both discourse-new and non-unique entities, the situation most similar to the experimental items in Yamada et al. (2014). The corpus data suggest an apparent N2 bias, which is consistent with the N2 association preference observed as an unforced revision. Since the bias itself was not sufficiently strong to override the semantic preference for the N1 association manipulated in Yamada et al. (2014), the frequency bias is not the only factor that motivates an unforced revision in the processing of RC association ambiguity. | |
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| (in English) | unforced revision in parsing / relative clause association ambiguity / frequency effects / Japanese / corpus analysis / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 176, TL2014-35, pp. 127-132, Aug. 2014. | |
| Paper # | TL2014-35 | |
| Date of Issue | 2014-08-05 (TL) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Committee | TL |
| Conference Date | 2014-08-12 - 2014-08-13 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | The University of Tokyo (Komaba) 18 Bldg. Hall |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language |
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| Registration To | TL |
| Conference Code | 2014-08-TL |
| Language | English (Japanese title is available) |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Corpus Frequency of Relative Clause Association in Japanese |
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| Keyword(1) | unforced revision in parsing |
| Keyword(2) | relative clause association ambiguity |
| Keyword(3) | frequency effects |
| Keyword(4) | Japanese |
| Keyword(5) | corpus analysis |
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| 1st Author's Name | Toshiyuki Yamada |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Douglas Roland |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Manabu Arai |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 4th Author's Name | Yuki Hirose |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2014-08-13 16:05:00 |
| Presentation Time | 30 minutes |
| Registration for | TL |
| Paper # | TL2014-35 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.114 |
| Number (no) | no.176 |
| Page | pp.127-132 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2014-08-05 (TL) |
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