| Presentation | 2020-12-05 Processing cost of maintaining preverbal dependents Shinnosuke Isono, Yuki Hirose, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | In online comprehension of strictly head-final languages like Japanese, there can be a large processing demand at the head verb since multiple preverbal dependents have to be simultaneously retrieved from some distance. The present study investigates whether there is a mechanism that mitigates this demand by maintaining the mental representations of the dependents in working memory until the head verb is reached. In a Japanese self-paced reading experiment manipulating the number of preverbal dependents, readers were found to slow down in one region between the dependents and the verb when an adjunct is added. This suggests the presence of a maintenance mechanism that operates on an on-demand basis. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Sentence Comprehension / Head-final Language / Japanese / Working Memory / Retrieval / Maintenance |
| Paper # | TL2020-10 |
| Date of Issue | 2020-11-28 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2020/12/5(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | On-line Meeting |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Language Processing and Language Learning |
| 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) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Processing cost of maintaining preverbal dependents |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Sentence Comprehension |
| Keyword(2) | Head-final Language |
| Keyword(3) | Japanese |
| Keyword(4) | Working Memory |
| Keyword(5) | Retrieval |
| Keyword(6) | Maintenance |
| 1st Author's Name | Shinnosuke Isono |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo(U Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yuki Hirose |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo(U Tokyo) |
| Date | 2020-12-05 |
| Paper # | TL2020-10 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.120 |
| Number (no) | TL-277 |
| Page | pp.pp.18-23(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2020-11-28 (TL) |