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
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Conference Date 2011/7/29(1days)
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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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