| Presentation | 2010-08-05 Is Count/Mass Distinction Grammatically Drawn in Japanese? : an ERP Examination of Count/Mass Classifiers Junko KANERO, Mutsumi IMAI, Hiroyuki OKADA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | By means of ERP recording, the present study investigates whether count/mass nouns are grammatically distinguished by count/mass classifiers as proposed by Chen & Sybesma (1999). Broadly distributed N400 was evoked for mismatched pairs of nouns and classifiers. The violation across count/mass categories (e.g. a count noun with a mass classifier) did not show any distinctive signature indicating syntactic processing, and elicited the same N400 effect as that of the within-category violation (e.g. a count noun with a count classifier). The results suggest that classifiers are primarily processed on semantic bases and do not draw the count/mass distinction. |
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| Keyword(in English) | count/mass distinction / classifiers / ERP / N400 / LAN |
| Paper # | TL2010-15 |
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| Conference Date | 2010/7/29(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Is Count/Mass Distinction Grammatically Drawn in Japanese? : an ERP Examination of Count/Mass Classifiers |
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| Keyword(1) | count/mass distinction |
| Keyword(2) | classifiers |
| Keyword(3) | ERP |
| Keyword(4) | N400 |
| Keyword(5) | LAN |
| 1st Author's Name | Junko KANERO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | {Keio Research Institute at SFC, Faculty of Environment and Information}, Keio University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Mutsumi IMAI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | {Keio Research Institute at SFC, Faculty of Environment and Information}, Keio University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hiroyuki OKADA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Tamagawa University |
| Date | 2010-08-05 |
| Paper # | TL2010-15 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.110 |
| Number (no) | 163 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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