| Presentation | 2013-08-04 Optional Reanalysis in Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese Toshiyuki YAMADA, Yuki HIROSE, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This study investigated whether the sentence-final verb triggers optional/unforced reanalysis in the processing of relative clause (RC) association ambiguity in Japanese: RC N1-no N2 (i.e., local association (LA) or non-local association (non-LA)). Two off-line experiments were conducted to examine whether implicit causality (IC) between verbs in relative and matrix clauses triggers unforced reanalysis from LA, on the assumption of incremental parsing, to non-LA (both options are grammatical on the syntactic basis). Using the sentence structures, RC N1-no N2 V (Experiment 1) and RC N1-no N2 AdvP V (Experiment 2), it was shown that LA was preferred in the no-IC (baseline) condition and that non-LA was observed more in the IC condition compared to no-IC. We argue that apparently optional reanalysis is triggered by implicit causality for intra-sentential semantic/discourse coherence, and discuss its theoretical implications for Revision/Reanalysis as Last Resort (Fodor & Frazier 1980). |
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| Keyword(in English) | reanalysis in parsing / relative clause association ambiguity / implicit causality / Japanese / off-line experimentation |
| Paper # | TL2013-30 |
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| Conference Date | 2013/7/27(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Optional Reanalysis in Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese |
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| Keyword(1) | reanalysis in parsing |
| Keyword(2) | relative clause association ambiguity |
| Keyword(3) | implicit causality |
| Keyword(4) | Japanese |
| Keyword(5) | off-line experimentation |
| 1st Author's Name | Toshiyuki YAMADA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Doctoral Program in Language and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yuki HIROSE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Language and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo |
| Date | 2013-08-04 |
| Paper # | TL2013-30 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 174 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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