| Presentation | 1999/10/14 Cross-linguistic variation in human language processing Edson T. Miyamoto, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Parsing is surprisingly uniform across different languages. One exceptional cross-linguistic variation is observed in phrases such as "the daughter of the colonel that suffered the accident" in which the relative clause (RC) "that suffered the accident" can refer to "daughter" or to "colonel". In English, "colonel" is preferred; whereas "daughter" is favoured in Dutch, French, German, Spanish. This talk restricts the possible reasons for this variation by arguing that the preference in Brazilian Portuguese is similar to English. The second part of the talk discusses languages in which RCs precede the modified nouns, and experimental results in Japanese are reported. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | sentence processing / relative clause / cross-linguistic variation |
| Paper # | TL99-15 |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 1999/10/14(1days) |
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| Registration To | Thought and Language (TL) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Cross-linguistic variation in human language processing |
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| Keyword(1) | sentence processing |
| Keyword(2) | relative clause |
| Keyword(3) | cross-linguistic variation |
| 1st Author's Name | Edson T. Miyamoto |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo:Kanda University of International Studies:MIT() |
| Date | 1999/10/14 |
| Paper # | TL99-15 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.99 |
| Number (no) | 352 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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