| Presentation | 2013-08-03 A Revisitation of the Processing Cost of Japanese Subject and Object Relative Clauses Chunhua BAI, Yuki HIROSE, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Previous studies on the processing of relative clauses in Japanese have reported that relative clauses involving subject extractions (SRCs) are easier to process than relative clauses involving object extractions (ORCs). These results support the Structural Distance Hypothesis (SDH), which states that difficulties in relative clause processing are dependent on the structural distance between the filler and its gap site. In the present study, we investigated the effect of the animacy of nouns on the processing of sentences containing subject-relative and object-relative clauses. The results showed no significant interaction between the animacy and the relative type. However, the results showed the reading time for the object-extracted relative clause structures is actually faster than corresponding subject-extracted structures which contrasted the results from other previous studies. We discuss the results with respect to the effect of segmentation in the self-paced experimental setting and the degree of specification of the constituent nouns. |
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| Keyword(in English) | subject-object relative clause / segmentation / the specification of the nouns |
| Paper # | TL2013-23 |
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| Conference Date | 2013/7/27(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | A Revisitation of the Processing Cost of Japanese Subject and Object Relative Clauses |
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| Keyword(1) | subject-object relative clause |
| Keyword(2) | segmentation |
| Keyword(3) | the specification of the nouns |
| 1st Author's Name | Chunhua BAI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yuki HIROSE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo |
| Date | 2013-08-03 |
| Paper # | TL2013-23 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 174 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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