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| Presentation | 2012-07-22 11:30 What is in contrast? -- The role of prosodic prominence in ambiguity resolution -- Yuki Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo), Manabu Arai (JSPS/Univ. of Tokyo), Kiwako Ito (Ohio State Univ.)  TL2012-21 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | Two eye-tracking visual world experiments investigate the interaction between the contrast-marking prosody and contextually elicited contrast for the comprehension of an ambiguous branching structure (left-branching or right-branching) in Japanese such as buru’u-no ne'ko-no ka'sa 'blue cat-Gen umbrella'. The presence/absence of pitch expansion on Word 2 (N1, e.g., ne'ko-no, denoting the pattern/design of the object denoted by N2) was manipulated to examine the effect of the contrast-marking and the structure-marking prosody. The contextually-elicited contrast was also manipulated by controlling the prime and the target sequence, either standing in a color-contrast or in a pattern/design contrast. Our results demonstrate that the priming effect is subjected to inhibition when the accompanying prosody and the visual context is in a dissonance. The structurally less-preferred right-branching interpretation can be elicited only when both prosody and context support it. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | prosody / pitch expansion / syntactic priming / branching ambiguity / / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 145, TL2012-21, pp. 63-66, July 2012. | |
| Paper # | TL2012-21 | |
| Date of Issue | 2012-07-14 (TL) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
| Conference Date | 2012-07-21 - 2012-07-22 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Yamagata University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Language Processing and Learning |
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| Registration To | TL |
| Conference Code | 2012-07-TL |
| Language | English |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | What is in contrast? |
| Sub Title (in English) | The role of prosodic prominence in ambiguity resolution |
| Keyword(1) | prosody |
| Keyword(2) | pitch expansion |
| Keyword(3) | syntactic priming |
| Keyword(4) | branching ambiguity |
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| 1st Author's Name | Yuki Hirose |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Manabu Arai |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | JSPS/ Univeristy of Tokyo (JSPS/Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kiwako Ito |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Ohio State Univeristy (Ohio State Univ.) |
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| Date Time | 2012-07-22 11:30:00 |
| Presentation Time | 30 minutes |
| Registration for | TL |
| Paper # | TL2012-21 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | no.145 |
| Page | pp.63-66 |
| #Pages | 4 |
| Date of Issue | 2012-07-14 (TL) |
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