Presentation 2020-10-25
How does conceptual accessibility affect sentence production
Zhanmei XIE, Hirokazu Yokokawa,
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Abstract(in English) Animacy is demonstrated to affect the subsequent grammatical encoding stages during sentence production. However, different animacy processing was suggested by the error analysis studies of Chinese JFL learners without being examined in terms of sentence processing. The present study thus carried out a sentence-recall task, using transitive sentences manipulated by voice and word order, and NP conjunctions varied in the consequence of noun phrases. The results showed that animacy affected the production of L1 speakers. As for L2 learners, we confirmed the subject prominence from the tendency to preferentially start a sentence with the subject argument (-ga), though we could not exclude the possibility of animacy effect.
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Keyword(in English) sentence production / animacy / conceptual accessibility
Paper # TL2020-3
Date of Issue 2020-10-18 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2020/10/25(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Theme 1 Arts and Language, Theme 2 Ba linguistics, Abduction of meaning, "Ba" in Co-Creation, Abduction and Innovation, Theme 3 Language and Thought
Chair Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Secretary Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Ferris Univ.)
Assistant Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas) / Akio Shimogori(Hakodate-ct)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Thought and Language
Language JPN
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Title (in English) How does conceptual accessibility affect sentence production
Sub Title (in English) Evidence from Chinese JFL learners focused on the effect of Animacy
Keyword(1) sentence production
Keyword(2) animacy
Keyword(3) conceptual accessibility
1st Author's Name Zhanmei XIE
1st Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hirokazu Yokokawa
2nd Author's Affiliation Kobe University(Kobe Univ.)
Date 2020-10-25
Paper # TL2020-3
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) TL-210
Page pp.pp.12-17(TL),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-10-18 (TL)