Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages
Distributed for Center for the Study of Language and Information
304 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
Researchers in the fields of linguistics, psychology, cognitive science and neuro-science have long been interested in the impact of the development of a universal theory of how humans process language. Many believe that the creation of such a theory could possibly assist in the understanding of how the human brain works. For this reason, much research has been performed on sentence processing in English and other Indo-European languages. Yet, East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have received little attention.
This volume is the first of its kind to discuss how native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean process sentences in their native tongues. Although these three languages share similar characteristics, the volume acknowledges and discusses specific issues that are unique to each language. Contributors explore the effects of homophones on lexical ambiguity in Chinese, and investigate the impact of word order on structural ambiguity in Japanese and working memory in Korean. The findings presented have important implications for sentence processing and cognitive processing models, and by extension contribute toward the construction of a universal theory of human language processing.
This volume is the first of its kind to discuss how native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean process sentences in their native tongues. Although these three languages share similar characteristics, the volume acknowledges and discusses specific issues that are unique to each language. Contributors explore the effects of homophones on lexical ambiguity in Chinese, and investigate the impact of word order on structural ambiguity in Japanese and working memory in Korean. The findings presented have important implications for sentence processing and cognitive processing models, and by extension contribute toward the construction of a universal theory of human language processing.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. Timing Issues in Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
[I]Kathleen Ahrens[I]
2. Resolution of Reanalysis Ambiguity in Japanese Relative Clauses
Yuki Hirose
3. The Nature of Categorical Ambiguity and Its Implications for Language Processing
[I]Chu-Ren Huang, Chao-Jan Chen and Claude C.C. Shen[I]
4. Syntactic and Positional Similarity Effects in the Processing of Japanese Embeddings
[I]Richard L. Lewis and Mineharu Nakayama[I]
5. Lexical Ambiguity in Sentence Processing
Ping Li, Hua Shu, Michael Yip, Yaxu Zhang and Yinghong Tang[I]
6. Costs of Scrambling in Japanese Sentence Processing
[I]Reiko Mazuka, Kenji Itoh and Tadahisa Kondo[I]
7. Sources of Difficulty in Processing Scrambling in Japanese
[I]Edson T. Miyamoto and Shoichi Takahashi[I]
8. Processing Filler-gap Constructions in Japanese
[I]Tsutomu Sakamoto[I]
9. Effects of Accentual Phrasing on Adjective Interpretation in Korean
[I]Amy J. Schafer and Sun-Ah Jun[I]
10. Center-embedding Problem and the Contribution of Nominative Case Repetition
[I]Keiko Uehara and Dianne C. Bradley[I]
Subject Index
Preface
1. Timing Issues in Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
[I]Kathleen Ahrens[I]
2. Resolution of Reanalysis Ambiguity in Japanese Relative Clauses
Yuki Hirose
3. The Nature of Categorical Ambiguity and Its Implications for Language Processing
[I]Chu-Ren Huang, Chao-Jan Chen and Claude C.C. Shen[I]
4. Syntactic and Positional Similarity Effects in the Processing of Japanese Embeddings
[I]Richard L. Lewis and Mineharu Nakayama[I]
5. Lexical Ambiguity in Sentence Processing
Ping Li, Hua Shu, Michael Yip, Yaxu Zhang and Yinghong Tang[I]
6. Costs of Scrambling in Japanese Sentence Processing
[I]Reiko Mazuka, Kenji Itoh and Tadahisa Kondo[I]
7. Sources of Difficulty in Processing Scrambling in Japanese
[I]Edson T. Miyamoto and Shoichi Takahashi[I]
8. Processing Filler-gap Constructions in Japanese
[I]Tsutomu Sakamoto[I]
9. Effects of Accentual Phrasing on Adjective Interpretation in Korean
[I]Amy J. Schafer and Sun-Ah Jun[I]
10. Center-embedding Problem and the Contribution of Nominative Case Repetition
[I]Keiko Uehara and Dianne C. Bradley[I]
Subject Index
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