Presentation 2009-07-18
Effects of Noun Phrase Animacy and Word Order in Sentence Production : An Eye-Tracking Study using Visual World Paradigm
Kanako ONO, Deng YING, Hajime ONO, Hiromu SAKAI,
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Abstract(in English) Griffin & Bock (2000) monitored the eye-movement of speakers as they describe simple events and found that the speakers' gaze pattern corresponds to the order of the object they mention. In this study, we examined whether the speakers show the similar gaze pattern when they produced sentences with the non-subject first word order. Animacy of the NP was also manipulated in order to examine its effects in sentence production. The result revealed that the gaze-utterance correspondence is invariant even when the speakers produce sentences with the non-subject first word order. It is also found that animacy has an impact on grammatical function assignment in that the assignment of subject grammatical function to an animate NP is less costly than its assignment to an inanimate NP.
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Keyword(in English) language production / animacy / existential construction / eye-tracking / visual world paradigm
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Conference Date 2009/7/11(1days)
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Title (in English) Effects of Noun Phrase Animacy and Word Order in Sentence Production : An Eye-Tracking Study using Visual World Paradigm
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Keyword(1) language production
Keyword(2) animacy
Keyword(3) existential construction
Keyword(4) eye-tracking
Keyword(5) visual world paradigm
1st Author's Name Kanako ONO
1st Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University()
2nd Author's Name Deng YING
2nd Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University
3rd Author's Name Hajime ONO
3rd Author's Affiliation Kinki University
4th Author's Name Hiromu SAKAI
4th Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University
Date 2009-07-18
Paper # TL2009-15
Volume (vol) vol.109
Number (no) 140
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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