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Presentation 2010-08-05 15:35
Contextual Frequency as a Predictor for Word Order in Japanese Sentence Production
Tadahisa Kondo (NTT Corp.), Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Inst. of Tech.) TL2010-23
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), we investigated the correlation between word frequency and phrase orders in Japanese. The Locative sentences with a ni-marked Locative phrase (LOC) and an Accusative-marked argument (ACC) were extracted from the conference presentation portion of CSJ. We counted how frequently each word appeared within each speaker’s presentation. For the analyses the mixed-effects logit model was employed. The probability of ACC uttered before LOC, pACC, was used as the dependent variable. Three independent variables were used: (a) ‘maxany’, whether or not the highest frequency word in the two phrases appeared anywhere in ACC, (b) ‘maxhead’, whether or not the head noun of ACC was most frequent, and (c) ‘maxfirst’, whether or not the first content word of ACC was most frequent. Among three independent variables, only the contribution of ‘maxany’ was significant even when the length variable was used simultaneously (p < .05). The significant contribution of ‘maxany’ suggests that the phrase containing the highest frequency word is uttered ahead of other phrases in the sentence, but the word is not necessarily in a particular grammatical position such as the head or the phrase-initial word.
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(in English) Sentence Production / Word Order / Word Frequency / Phrase Length / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 163, TL2010-23, pp. 71-76, Aug. 2010.
Paper # TL2010-23 
Date of Issue 2010-07-29 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2010-08-05 - 2010-08-06 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Human Sentence Processing and Production/learning 
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Conference Code 2010-08-TL 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Contextual Frequency as a Predictor for Word Order in Japanese Sentence Production 
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Keyword(1) Sentence Production  
Keyword(2) Word Order  
Keyword(3) Word Frequency  
Keyword(4) Phrase Length  
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1st Author's Name Tadahisa Kondo  
1st Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laborataories., NTT Corporation. (NTT Corp.)
2nd Author's Name Hiroko Yamashita  
2nd Author's Affiliation Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester Inst. of Tech.)
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Date Time 2010-08-05 15:35:00 
Presentation Time 135 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2010-23 
Volume (vol) vol.110 
Number (no) no.163 
Page pp.71-76 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2010-07-29 (TL) 

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