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| Presentation | 2013-08-04 10:55 Working-memory load and left-corner parsing in Japanese sentence processing Shodai Uchida (Univ. of Tokyo), Edson T. Miyamoto (Univ. of Tsukuba), Yuki Hirose, Takane Ito (Univ. of Tokyo)  TL2013-31 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | We provide experimental evidence supporting left-corner parsing (LCP; e.g., Abney & Johnson, 1991) as a better candidate for simulating how people understand sentences compared to alternatives such as bottom-up parsing and top-down parsing. In LCP, the top TP node and its VP node are not connected until the verb is read. Therefore, a VP-internal adjunct increases the memory cost for other VP-internal constituents (e.g., NP-dat), but not for elements outside the VP node (e.g., NP-nom). This leads to the prediction that the reading times to a VP-internal adjunct should be longer when the sentence-initial NP is dative than when it is nominative. We report self-paced reading data supporting this prediction in line with a processing model in which working-memory load depends on the syntactic representation built at each point. The result provides a counterexample to processing models in which working-memory load is determined by dependency relations alone (e.g., Nakatani & Gibson, 2010). | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | left-corner parsing / working memory / parsing algorithm / sentence processing / Japanese / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 174, TL2013-31, pp. 99-103, Aug. 2013. | |
| Paper # | TL2013-31 | |
| Date of Issue | 2013-07-27 (TL) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Committee | TL |
| Conference Date | 2013-08-03 - 2013-08-04 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka Umeda Campus |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Language Processing and Learning |
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| Registration To | TL |
| Conference Code | 2013-08-TL |
| Language | English (Japanese title is available) |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Working-memory load and left-corner parsing in Japanese sentence processing |
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| Keyword(1) | left-corner parsing |
| Keyword(2) | working memory |
| Keyword(3) | parsing algorithm |
| Keyword(4) | sentence processing |
| Keyword(5) | Japanese |
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| 1st Author's Name | Shodai Uchida |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Edson T. Miyamoto |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | University of Tsukuba (Univ. of Tsukuba) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Yuki Hirose |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 4th Author's Name | Takane Ito |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| Speaker | Author-1 |
| Date Time | 2013-08-04 10:55:00 |
| Presentation Time | 25 minutes |
| Registration for | TL |
| Paper # | TL2013-31 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | no.174 |
| Page | pp.99-103 |
| #Pages | 5 |
| Date of Issue | 2013-07-27 (TL) |
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