Papers - NAKATANI Kentaro
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Locality-based retrieval effects are dependent on dependency type: A case study of a negative polarity dependency in Japanese Invited Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives Vol. 2: Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors 31 - 54 2023.11
Authorship:Lead author Publisher:De Gruyter
File: Nakatani2023_Koizumi_ed_IJPCP02-003.pdf
DOI: 10.1515/9783110778939-003
Other Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110778939-003/pdf
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The effect of contextual information on lexical decision tasks
Miki Ishihara, Kentaro Nakatani
IEICE Technical Report TL2023-19 19 - 24 2023.9
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An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese Reviewed
Satoshi Nambu, Kentaro Nakatani
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8 ( 1 ) 2023.5
Publisher:Open Library of the Humanities
We present the results of two acceptability judgment and three self-paced reading experiments exploring the source of degradation effects on the acceptability of genitive subjects caused by having them not adjacent to the verb. From a syntactic perspective, Miyagawa (2011) attributes this adjacency constraint to his assumption that the genitive subject is situated in Spec-vP, lower than adverbials adjoined to vP or higher. This theory thus predicts that adverbials lower than vP can intervene between the genitive subject and the verb without degrading acceptability. To test this issue and examine the time course of the intervention effects, our experiments varied the number and the types of interveners. Whereas the results of our acceptability judgment experiments straightforwardly confirmed the purported intervention effects, the self-paced reading experiments provided results that cannot be explained in structural terms alone. First, the reading times of the verb and/or the head noun were greater when the genitive subject was adjacent to the verb, an effect that has not been reported in the previous literature. Secondly, the summed reading times of the preverbal regions showed opposite patterns: i.e., the reading times were greater when the genitive subject was not adjacent. Finally, regarding the types of interveners, we found that temporal adverbs and locative PPs, but not manner adverbs, were read significantly slower when they followed the genitive subject. We argue that a hybrid account incorporating a syntactic hypothesis with expectation-based incremental processing theories is called for to account for the whole range of data. 
File: NambuNakatani2023_glossa-9509-nambu.pdf
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.9509
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Toogoron to gengo-un'yoo no intaafeisu [Interface between Syntax and Linguistic Performance] Invited
Kentaro Nakatani
Toogoron to Gengogaku Syo Bun-ya to no Intaafeisu [Interface between Syntax and Other Linguistic Fields] 125 - 160 2021.11
Authorship:Lead author
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Locality Effects in the Processing of Negative-Sensitive Adverbials in Japanese Invited
Kentaro Nakatani
The Joy and Enjoyment of Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Takane Ito. 462 - 472 2021.3
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Doosi imiron ni okeru zisyoo no hanpukusei [Event repeatability in verb semantics] Invited Reviewed
Shoko Shida, Kentaro Nakatani
Yoko Yumoto and Hideki Kishimoto (Eds.) Meisi o meguru syo-mondai: Go keisei, imi, koobun 109 - 120 2020.10
Joint Work
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Aspectual interpretation of -te kuru as a result of modal slide Invited Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Yile Yu, Kiyoko Eguchi, Yasuhito Kido and Miho Mano (eds.) Toogo-koozoo to Goi no Takaku-teki Kenkyuu. [Multidimensional Studies of Syntactic Structures and the Lexicon] 228 - 243 2020.3
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Gengo un'yoo-ni okeru imi keisan: nekusuto mensyon-o rei-ni [Semantic computation in linguistic performance: a case study of next mention] Invited Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani & Shoko Shida
H. Kishimoto (Ed.), Rekisikon-no Gendai Riron-to sono Ooyoo [Modern Theories of Lexicon and their Applications] 73 - 97 2019.11
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Can you do it once or only once? An experimental study of activity and semelfactive verbs Reviewed
Shoko Shida and Kentaro Nakatani
IEICE Technical Report TL2019-30 95 - 100 2019.7
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A study of the bump alternation in Japanese from the perspective of extended/onset causation
Natsuno Aoki and Kentaro Nakatani
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon 119 - 124 2016.12
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Complex predicates with -te gerundive verbs Invited Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Taro Kageyama and Hideki Kishimoto (eds.) Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation 387 - 424 2016.2
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Hukudoosei, ryoosisei kara saikoo suru tassei, tootatu no kubetu [Distinction between accomplishment and achievement from the perspective of pluractionality and quantization.] Invited Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Yoko Yumoto and Naoyuki Ono (eds.) Goiimiron no aratana kanoosei 157 - 183 2015.11
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A Judgment Study on Aspectual Diagnostics in Japanese Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani and Natsuno Aoki
Naonori Nagaya, Akiko Takemura and Timothy Vance (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linsuitics 22. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 22 55 - 70 2015.3
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Kentaro Nakatani
The Journal of Konan University: Faculty of Letters 165 99 - 112 2015.3
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An Experimental Study on Adjacency and Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese Reviewed
Satoshi Nambu and Kentaro Nakatani
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 73: Proceedings of FAJL 131 - 142 2014.12
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Integration Costs in the Processing of Japanese Wh-interrogative Sentences Reviewed
Hajime Ono and Kentaro Nakatani
Studies in Language Sciences 13 13 - 31 2014.12
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Bunkaiseki to Kioku Sisutemu: Bunpooteki Izonkankei Kootiku ni okeru Kansyoo-kooka no Kentoo [The Human Sentence Processing System and the Memory Systems: A Study of Interference Effects on Grammatical Dependency Formation]
Hajime Ono, Miki Obata, Kentaro Nakatani
The Design, Develepment and Evolution of Language: Explorations in Biolinguistics 174 - 205 2014.11
Joint Work
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Sieki-rensa no gensoku to te-kei hukuzatu-zyutugo ni okeru ni-kaku no yooninsei [Principle of causation flow and acceptability of ni-dative in the V-te V complex predicates Invited
Kentaro Nakatani
Hukuzatu-jutugo Kenkyuu no Genzai [Current Trends in the Study of Complex Predicates] 99 - 124 2014.1
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Zisyoo Kyanseru Kanoosei ni tuite no Situmonsi-Tyoosa: Sono Syoosai Deeta [A Questionnaire Study on Event Cancellability: It's Data in Detail]
Natsuno Aoki, Kentaro Nakatani
The Journal of Konan University: Faculty of Letters 163 41 - 57 2013.3
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Process, Telicity, and Event Cancellability in Japanese: A Questionnaire Study Reviewed
Natsuno Aoki, Kentaro Nakatani
JELS 30 257 - 263 2013.2