Presentation | 2011-08-06 Linguistic Constraints and Long-before-short Tendency Hiroko YAMASHITA, Tadahisa KONDO, |
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Abstract(in English) | Speakers of head-final languages with flexible word-order such as Japanese and Korean show the Long-before-short (LbS) tendency, a tendency to place a long phrase before a short phrase in a sentence. However, the frequency to scramble a long phrase before a short phrase varies across sentence structures (Kondo & Yamashita 2011; Yamashita & Chang, 2001), suggesting that the phrase-ordering in languages may be guided by multiple principles. Using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), the LbS tendency across different types of structures and the global/local production load of LbS sentences were examined. The LbS tendency in terms of frequency was observed only in the low-canonical structure. Global production load, as measured by the frequency of fillers (filled pauses), was such that only in high-canonical structure was SbL higher than LbS. Only in the high-canonical structure speakers showed advance planning. The overall results indicate that speakers' production processes are adjusted according to how strongly the grammar requires speakers to observe a rigid word-order. |
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Keyword(in English) | Disfluency / Word order / Advance planning / Corpus analysis / Sentence production load |
Paper # | TL2011-19 |
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Conference Date | 2011/7/29(1days) |
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Language | ENG |
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Title (in English) | Linguistic Constraints and Long-before-short Tendency |
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Keyword(1) | Disfluency |
Keyword(2) | Word order |
Keyword(3) | Advance planning |
Keyword(4) | Corpus analysis |
Keyword(5) | Sentence production load |
1st Author's Name | Hiroko YAMASHITA |
1st Author's Affiliation | Rochester Institute of Technology() |
2nd Author's Name | Tadahisa KONDO |
2nd Author's Affiliation | NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
Date | 2011-08-06 |
Paper # | TL2011-19 |
Volume (vol) | vol.111 |
Number (no) | 170 |
Page | pp.pp.- |
#Pages | 5 |
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