Presentation 2016-07-23
Locality Effect on the Processing of Gap-Filler Dependency: An On-Line Study of Japanese Relative Clauses
Shoko Yanagino, Hajime Ono,
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Abstract(in English) In Japanese, previous studies observed a lack of locality effects in integrating a referential NP and a verb (Nakatani and Gibson, 2008, 2010) while the processing costs due to distance have been observed on NPI dependencies (Nakatani, 2009) and wh-Q dependencies (Ono and Nakatani, 2010, 2014). The current study examined a locality effect on the processing of Japanese relative clauses. By adding a linear distance between a gap and a filler, a self-paced reading experiments were conducted. Although the results did not show a strong locality effect, marginally longer reading times were observed when object-extracted relative clauses were intervened by wh-interrogatives.
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Keyword(in English) Sentence processinglocality effectdependency formationrelative clausewh-phraseJapanese
Paper # TL2016-19
Date of Issue 2016-07-16 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2016/7/23(2days)
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Place (in English) Waseda Univ. (Nishi-Waseda Campus)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Human Language Processing and Learning
Chair Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.)
Vice Chair Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics)
Secretary Chiaki Kubomura(Ehime Univ.)
Assistant Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) / Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.)

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Language ENG
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Title (in English) Locality Effect on the Processing of Gap-Filler Dependency: An On-Line Study of Japanese Relative Clauses
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Sentence processinglocality effectdependency formationrelative clausewh-phraseJapanese
1st Author's Name Shoko Yanagino
1st Author's Affiliation JustSystems Corporation(JustSystems)
2nd Author's Name Hajime Ono
2nd Author's Affiliation Tsuda College(Tsuda College)
Date 2016-07-23
Paper # TL2016-19
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) TL-159
Page pp.pp.37-42(TL),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-07-16 (TL)