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
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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
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Deriving the Invisibility of Appositives. Reviewed
Kentaro Nakatani
Proceedings of the Sophia University Linguistic Society Vol. 9 9 1994