Papers - NAKATANI Kentaro
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V-Concatenation in Japanese Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
J. Pustejovsky et al. (eds.) Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Dordrecht: Springer. 263 - 290 2013.1
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The Effects of a Pragmatic Factor in the Processing of Japanese Benefactive Constructions. Reviewed
Hajime Kataoka, Kentaro Nakatani
JELS 29 246 - 252 2012.2
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Integration of Wh-Phrases and Predicates in Japanese Sentence Processing.
Hajime Ono, Kentaro Nakatani
IEICE Technical Report 110 99 - 104 2010
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An On-Line Study of Japanese Nesting Complexity. Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani and Edward Gibson
Cognitive Science 34 94 - 112 2010
Joint Work
Authorship:Lead author
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The Manner-Motion Conflation Parameter: Is The Syntactic Approach Better? Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
English Linguistics 26 ( 2 ) 550 - 572 2009
Single Work
Authorship:Lead author
The present article critically reviews Zubizarreta and Oh (henceforth, Z&
O)’s (2007) work, which proposes novel syntactic treatments of the well-known “manner-motion conflation” parameter among languages such as Korean, Germanic, and Romance (Talmy (1985)) and of a serial-verb construction parameter that explains the difference between Edo and Korean. Because there has been a long tradition of lexicalist studies on these matters (Talmy (1985), Pinker (1989), Kageyama (1993), Rappaport Hovav and Levin (1998), among others), Z&
O’s work is specifically examined to see if their approach is advantageous over the lexicalist approach in terms of the predictability of the parameter setting. It is shown in the present article that Z&
O’s approach is actually not as explanatory as they argue—at least it is hard to conclude that their approach has been proven better. © 2009, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved. -
Distinguishing theories of syntactic expectation cost in sentence comprehension: Evidence from Japanese Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani, Edward Gibson
LINGUISTICS 46 ( 1 ) 63 - 87 2008
Joint Work
Authorship:Lead author Publisher:MOUTON DE GRUYTER
Previous research in the sentence comprehension literature has established that people expend resources keeping track of partially processed phrase structures during the process of comprehending sentences. An open question in this literature has been what units of syntactic expectation cost the human parser utilizes. Two viable options from the literature are (1) incomplete syntactic dependencies; and (2) predicted syntactic heads. This article provides a self-paced reading experiment from Japanese - a head-final language - that tests the incomplete dependency hypothesis. The materials in the current experiment manipulate the number of dependents of an upcoming verb, by manipulating (1) the presence/absence of a locative postpositional phrase modifier of the verb and (2) the presence labsence of a dative argument of the verb. The results failed to show any support for the incomplete dependency hypothesis, but were completely consistent with the predictions of the predicted head hypothesis. Taken with the results from the literature, these results offer support for the predicted head hypothesis.
File: NakataniGibson2008.pdf
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Tekuru/Teiku no Doosi Kyooki Seigen no Hasei [Deriving collocational restrictions on the verbs with -te kuru and -te iku]
Kentaro Nakatani
Taro Kageyama (ed) Lexicon Forum No. 4 (Hituzi) 63 - 89 2008
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Bunsyori Sutoratezii to iu Siten kara Mita Kekka-koobun no Ruikei-ron [Typology of resultative constructions from the perspective of sentence processing strategies] Invited
中谷健太郎
Naoyuki Ono (ed.) Kekka-koobun Kenkyuu no Sin-siten [New perspective on the studies in resultative constructions] (Hituzi) 289 - 317 2007.9
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Opposition Structure is not Event Structure: A Study of Cancellable Transition in Japanese V-teiru. Reviewed
中谷 健太郎
In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, 2007
Single Work
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Aspectual Presupposition, Entailment, and Composition in the Semantics of V-teiru.
中谷 健太郎
言語処理学会第13回年次大会(NLP2007)発表論文集, 847 - 850 2007
Single Work
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Processing complexity of complex predicates: A case study in Japanese Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Linguistic Inquiry 37 ( 4 ) 625 - 647 2006.9
Complex predicates, by definition, behave like representadonally "reduced" predicates, as extensively discussed in the syntax literature. This article reports the results from an experimental study using a type of complex predicate in Japanese (the V-te V predicate), testing how people process this type of complex "restructured" predicate in real time. Because of the properties of the V-te V predicate, it was possible lo compare restructured predicates with nonrestructured ones, keeping such factors as event composition, Case licensing, and lexical choice constant. The results of the experiment suggest that the tested restructured predicates involve a single array of predicate-argument association rather than two separate arrays, even though they contain two verbs. The results also revealed that syntactically complex ditransitive predicates are processed with the same ease as lexical ditransitives. © 2006 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
File: Nakatani2006_LI.pdf
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Progressive, Imperfective and Perfect from a GL Perspective. Reviewed
中谷 健太郎
n the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, ed. by P. Bouillon and K. Kanzaki 167 - 174 2005
Single Work
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Predicate Concatenation: A Study of the V-te-V Predicate in Japanese.
Kentaro Nakatani
Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University 2004
Single Work
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Analyzing -Te. Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12, ed. by W. McClure, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 377 - 387 2003
Single Work
Authorship:Lead author
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Cyclic Interpretation in Complex Predicates in Japanese.
Kentaro Nakatani
Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics: Special Volume on the Studies in Light Verbs, ed. by C. Bowern et al, 95 - 121 2003
Single Work
Authorship:Lead author
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V-Concatenation in Japanese: A GL Approach. Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon, ed. by P. Bouillon and K. Kanzaki, 107 - 114 2003
Single Work
Authorship:Lead author
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Denominalization in the Generative Lexicon.
Kentaro Nakatani
S. Chiba et al. (eds) Empirical and Theoretical Investigations Into Language (Kaitakusya: Tokyo) 377 - 387 2003
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Applying Lexical Rules in Syntax: A Case Study of the V-te V Construction in Japanese. Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 40, ed. by O. Matushansky, A. Costa, J. Martin-Gonzalez, L. Nathan and A. Szczegielniak, 40 191 - 204 2001
Single Work
Authorship:Lead author
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Existential Quantifiers and Referentiality.
Kentaro Nakatani
Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 6 6 181 - 193 1997
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On apposition Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Sophia University, Japan 1994