| Presentation | 2015-08-05 Priming from Null Subject and Full Passives with Japanese Children and Adults Megumi Ishikawa, Manabu Arai, Yuki Hirose, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Ishikawa et al. (2014) showed that Japanese short passives primed the passive structure to the same extent as full passive primes with both adults and children. It also showed that the size of a priming effect was larger for adults than children. One possibility for these findings is that the phenomenon of the syntactic priming of Japanese passives is entirely driven by the passive morpheme -(r)are. The other possibility is that not only the passive morpheme -(r)are but also the presence of the nominative argument contributes to the priming of Japanese passive structure. To test these possibilities, we conducted an experiment with the null subject passive primes (e.g., Saru-ni tatak-are-te-ru ‘(The animal) is being hit by the frog’) along with the full passive primes compared with the active primes. Our results showed that both adults and children produced more passive descriptions following both types of passive primes than following the active primes. Interestingly, adults showed a greater number of full passive descriptions following the null subject passive primes than following the full passive primes. In contrast, a numerically smaller number of full passives were produced following the null subject passive primes than the full passive primes in children. Our results demonstrated that the priming of Japanese passives is not entirely driven by the processing of the passive morpheme -(r)are and that the priming effects of Japanese passive is inversely correlated with the frequency of the structure. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Japanese / Passive / Priming / First language acquisition / Sentence production |
| Paper # | TL2015-19 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2015/8/5(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Tsuda College |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
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| 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) | Priming from Null Subject and Full Passives with Japanese Children and Adults |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Japanese |
| Keyword(2) | Passive |
| Keyword(3) | Priming |
| Keyword(4) | First language acquisition |
| Keyword(5) | Sentence production |
| 1st Author's Name | Megumi Ishikawa |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(The Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Manabu Arai |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(The Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Yuki Hirose |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo(The Univ. of Tokyo) |
| Date | 2015-08-05 |
| Paper # | TL2015-19 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-176 |
| Page | pp.pp.9-14(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |