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Presentation 2010-08-06 14:40
Grammatical Role Assignment, Not Word Order, Drives Structure Choice in English, Japanese and Korean
Jessica Montag, Maryellen MacDonald (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) TL2010-29
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) We examine the effect of non-linguistic factors (semantic properties such as animacy) and language specific factors (such as word order) on sentence production. In Experiment 1, relative clauses were elicited using a picture description task that manipulated head noun animacy in English, Japanese and Korean. Speakers of all three languages produced more passive relatives with animate than inanimate heads, suggesting that a common role for non-linguistic (semantic) information during production. A language by animacy interaction suggests a role for language-specific factors as well. In Experiment 2, the role of topic status (another non-linguistic property) on structure choice is considered. Grammatical role assignment is implicated as an important step in sentence production, with language-specific patterns biasing the extent to which animate entities or topics must become grammatical subjects.
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(in English) language production / relative clauses / animacy / cross-linguistic studies / grammatical role assignment / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 163, TL2010-29, pp. 105-110, Aug. 2010.
Paper # TL2010-29 
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 
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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 
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Title (in English) Grammatical Role Assignment, Not Word Order, Drives Structure Choice in English, Japanese and Korean 
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Keyword(1) language production  
Keyword(2) relative clauses  
Keyword(3) animacy  
Keyword(4) cross-linguistic studies  
Keyword(5) grammatical role assignment  
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1st Author's Name Jessica Montag  
1st Author's Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
2nd Author's Name Maryellen MacDonald  
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Wisconsin-Madison (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Date Time 2010-08-06 14:40:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # TL2010-29 
Volume (vol) vol.110 
Number (no) no.163 
Page pp.105-110 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2010-07-29 (TL) 

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