| Presentation | 2010-08-05 Contextual Frequency as a Predictor for Word Order in Japanese Sentence Production Tadahisa KONDO, Hiroko YAMASHITA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), we investigated the correlation between word frequency and phrase orders in Japanese. The Locative sentences with a ni-marked Locative phrase (LOC) and a Accusative-marked argument (ACC) were extracted from the conference presentation portion of CSJ. We counted how frequently each word appeared within each speaker's presentation. For the analyses the mixed-effects logit model was employed. The probability of ACC uttered before LOC, pACC, was used as the dependent variable. Three independent variables were used: (a) 'maxany', whether or not the highest frequency word in the two phrases appeared anywhere in ACC, (b) 'maxhead', whether or not the head noun of ACC was most frequent, and (c) 'maxfirst', whether or not the first content word of ACC was most frequent. Among three independent variables, only the contribution of 'maxany' was significant even when the length variable was used simultaneously (p<0.5). The significant contribution of 'maxany' suggests that the phrase containing the highest frequency word is uttered ahead of other phrases in the sentence, but the word is not necessarily in a particular grammatical position such as the head or the phrase-initial word. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Sentence Production / Word Order / Word Frequency / Phrase Length |
| Paper # | TL2010-23 |
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| Conference Date | 2010/7/29(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Contextual Frequency as a Predictor for Word Order in Japanese Sentence Production |
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| Keyword(1) | Sentence Production |
| Keyword(2) | Word Order |
| Keyword(3) | Word Frequency |
| Keyword(4) | Phrase Length |
| 1st Author's Name | Tadahisa KONDO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Labs., NTT Corporation() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hiroko YAMASHITA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Date | 2010-08-05 |
| Paper # | TL2010-23 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.110 |
| Number (no) | 163 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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