TY - GEN
T1 - Predicting japanese scrambling in the wild
AU - Orita, Naho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Japanese speakers have a choice between canonical SOV and scrambled OSV word order to express the same meaning. Although previous experiments examine the influence of one or two factors for scrambling in a controlled setting, it is not yet known what kinds of multiple effects contribute to scrambling. This study uses naturally distributed data to test the multiple effects on scrambling simultaneously. A regression analysis replicates the NP length effect and suggests the influence of noun types, but it provides no evidence for syntactic priming, given-new ordering, and the animacy effect. These findings only show evidence for sentence-internal factors, but we find no evidence that discourse level factors play a role.
AB - Japanese speakers have a choice between canonical SOV and scrambled OSV word order to express the same meaning. Although previous experiments examine the influence of one or two factors for scrambling in a controlled setting, it is not yet known what kinds of multiple effects contribute to scrambling. This study uses naturally distributed data to test the multiple effects on scrambling simultaneously. A regression analysis replicates the NP length effect and suggests the influence of noun types, but it provides no evidence for syntactic priming, given-new ordering, and the animacy effect. These findings only show evidence for sentence-internal factors, but we find no evidence that discourse level factors play a role.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094996136
T3 - CMCL 2017 - Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings
SP - 41
EP - 45
BT - CMCL 2017 - Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Proceedings
A2 - Gibson, Ted
A2 - Linzen, Tal
A2 - Sayeed, Asad
A2 - van Schijndel, Marten
A2 - Schuler, William
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 7th Workshop in Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, CMCL 2017 at the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017
Y2 - 3 April 2017
ER -