Two eye-tracking experiments in the visual world paradigm examined the interaction between struct... more Two eye-tracking experiments in the visual world paradigm examined the interaction between structural priming and the contrast-marking prosody for the comprehension of a globally ambiguous branching structure in Japanese. In particular, we tested cases where the contrastive relation established between the prime and the target trials was either consistent with (Experiment 1) and incongruent with (Experiment 2) the contrast evoked by the prosodic manipulation. The phrase consisting of a color adjective, a nominal modifier with a genitive case, and a head noun such as ‘akai hoshino osara’ (red star-GEN plate) is globally ambiguous between left branching (LB) interpretation (i.e., plate with red stars) and right branching (RB) interpretation (i.e., red plate with stars) with the former being a preferred reading. Using this phrase, we manipulated presence/absence of focus intonation with an expanded pitch range, which is known to invoke contrastive referential interpretation (Ito & Spee...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Previous research shows that monolingual Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese listeners perceive ill... more Previous research shows that monolingual Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese listeners perceive illusory vowels (/u/ and /i/, respectively) within illegal sequences of consonants. Here, several populations of Japanese-Brazilian bilinguals are tested, using an explicit vowel identification task (experiment 1), and an implicit categorization and sequence recall task (experiment 2). Overall, second-generation immigrants, who first acquired Japanese at home and Brazilian during childhood (after age 4) showed a typical Brazilian pattern of result (and so did simultaneous bilinguals, who were exposed to both languages from birth on). In contrast, late bilinguals, who acquired their second language in adulthood, exhibited a pattern corresponding to their native language. In addition, an influence of the second language was observed in the explicit task of Exp. 1, but not in the implicit task used in Exp. 2, suggesting that second language experience affects mostly explicit or metalinguistic ...
In this study, using a self-paced reading task and sentence fragment completion task, we investig... more In this study, using a self-paced reading task and sentence fragment completion task, we investigated the influence of matching and mismatching sentence initial numeral classifiers and relative clause (RC)-internal NPs on the processing of subject and object RCs in Japanese. The results showed that subject relative clauses (SRCs) were read faster than object relative clauses (ORCs) when the numeral classifier matched the NP within the RC. In contrast, when there was a numeral classifier mismatch, there was no statistical difference between SRCs and ORCs. Overall, our study suggests that whether numeral classifiers match NPs within RCs influences the processing of SRCs and ORCs in Japanese.
Two eye-tracking experiments in the visual world paradigm examined the interaction between struct... more Two eye-tracking experiments in the visual world paradigm examined the interaction between structural priming and the contrast-marking prosody for the comprehension of a globally ambiguous branching structure in Japanese. In particular, we tested cases where the contrastive relation established between the prime and the target trials was either consistent with (Experiment 1) and incongruent with (Experiment 2) the contrast evoked by the prosodic manipulation. The phrase consisting of a color adjective, a nominal modifier with a genitive case, and a head noun such as ‘akai hoshino osara’ (red star-GEN plate) is globally ambiguous between left branching (LB) interpretation (i.e., plate with red stars) and right branching (RB) interpretation (i.e., red plate with stars) with the former being a preferred reading. Using this phrase, we manipulated presence/absence of focus intonation with an expanded pitch range, which is known to invoke contrastive referential interpretation (Ito & Spee...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Previous research shows that monolingual Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese listeners perceive ill... more Previous research shows that monolingual Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese listeners perceive illusory vowels (/u/ and /i/, respectively) within illegal sequences of consonants. Here, several populations of Japanese-Brazilian bilinguals are tested, using an explicit vowel identification task (experiment 1), and an implicit categorization and sequence recall task (experiment 2). Overall, second-generation immigrants, who first acquired Japanese at home and Brazilian during childhood (after age 4) showed a typical Brazilian pattern of result (and so did simultaneous bilinguals, who were exposed to both languages from birth on). In contrast, late bilinguals, who acquired their second language in adulthood, exhibited a pattern corresponding to their native language. In addition, an influence of the second language was observed in the explicit task of Exp. 1, but not in the implicit task used in Exp. 2, suggesting that second language experience affects mostly explicit or metalinguistic ...
In this study, using a self-paced reading task and sentence fragment completion task, we investig... more In this study, using a self-paced reading task and sentence fragment completion task, we investigated the influence of matching and mismatching sentence initial numeral classifiers and relative clause (RC)-internal NPs on the processing of subject and object RCs in Japanese. The results showed that subject relative clauses (SRCs) were read faster than object relative clauses (ORCs) when the numeral classifier matched the NP within the RC. In contrast, when there was a numeral classifier mismatch, there was no statistical difference between SRCs and ORCs. Overall, our study suggests that whether numeral classifiers match NPs within RCs influences the processing of SRCs and ORCs in Japanese.
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