Presentation 2013-08-03
Binding and Dependency Length in Gapless Relative Clauses
Hajime ONO, Yu IKEMOTO,
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Abstract(in English) Previous studies on Japanese relative clauses suggested that prediction makes an effect on the processing cost for the relative clause head noun. Our study used a pronoun soko 'there' in the relative clause in order to control the influence of the relative clause prediction. The pronoun in the relative clause was bound by a universal quantifier, which appeared as a relative clause head. The relative clause head that binds the pronoun attached to the subject was read slower than that binds the pronoun attached to the object, suggesting that the previously observed preference for subject relative clause in Japanese could be largely due to the influence of prediction.
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Keyword(in English) Japanese / sentence processing / relative clauses / pronoun / dependency formation
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Conference Date 2013/7/27(1days)
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Title (in English) Binding and Dependency Length in Gapless Relative Clauses
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Keyword(1) Japanese
Keyword(2) sentence processing
Keyword(3) relative clauses
Keyword(4) pronoun
Keyword(5) dependency formation
1st Author's Name Hajime ONO
1st Author's Affiliation Faculty of Science & Engineering, Kinki University()
2nd Author's Name Yu IKEMOTO
2nd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Science & Engineering, Kinki University
Date 2013-08-03
Paper # TL2013-29
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 174
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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