| Presentation | 2009-07-18 The Role of Constituent Length in the Adjective Phrase Attachment Preference in Japanese : Evidence from an ERP Study Yoshinari KUSUBE, Yuki KOBAYASHI, Yuki HIROSE, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The construction [Adjective Phrase (AP)+NP1-no+NP2] in Japanese is structurally ambiguous in terms of whether the AP is attached low to the genitive-marked noun phrase, NP1 or high to the head noun phrase, NP2. Previous research has shown that the constituent length of the adjunct may have an effect on the resolution of such attachment ambiguity. The present study investigates at which stage of processing the AP length has its effect. More specifically, we investigated whether long APs and short APs would be attached to NP1 with equal likelihood, by examining ERP responses. Contrary to our predictions, the results showed no significant differences in the ERPs between the two conditions, suggesting the possibility that the constituent length of the AP might not affect the attachment process to NP1. Another analysis of the ERPs revealed that the sentences with short APs elicited a sustained (right-) anterior negativity after the second stimulus of the sentence (i.e. an adjective) was presented. This negativity also needs careful examination in future studies. |
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| Keyword(in English) | attachment ambiguity / implicit prosody / ERP (event-related brain potential) / N400 / P600 / RAN |
| Paper # | TL2009-14 |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2009/7/11(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | The Role of Constituent Length in the Adjective Phrase Attachment Preference in Japanese : Evidence from an ERP Study |
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| Keyword(1) | attachment ambiguity |
| Keyword(2) | implicit prosody |
| Keyword(3) | ERP (event-related brain potential) |
| Keyword(4) | N400 |
| Keyword(5) | P600 |
| Keyword(6) | RAN |
| 1st Author's Name | Yoshinari KUSUBE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yuki KOBAYASHI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| 3rd Author's Name | Yuki HIROSE |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| Date | 2009-07-18 |
| Paper # | TL2009-14 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 140 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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