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Ph.D. (Linguistics)(Harvard University), Master of Arts(Sophia University), Bachelor of Arts(The University of Tokyo) |
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Cognitive science, Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics, Humanities & Social Sciences / English linguistics, Informatics / Intelligent informatics, Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese linguistics, Humanities & Social Sciences / Experimental psychology |
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Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】
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Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of Linguistics Graduated
1995.9 - 2004.3
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The University of Tokyo Faculty of Literature Department of Linguistics Graduated
1987.4 - 1992.3
Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】
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Harvard University Department of Linguistics Linguistics Doctor's Course Completed
1995.9 - 2004.3
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Sophia University Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language Master's Course Completed
- 1995.3
Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】
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KONAN UNIVERSITY International Exchange Center Director in General
2017.4 - 2021.3
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KONAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Letters Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language Professor
2009.4
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KONAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Letters Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language Associate Professor
2007.4 - 2008.3
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KONAN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Letters Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language Associate Professor (as old post name)
2004.4 - 2007.3
External Career 【 display / non-display 】
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University of California, San Diego Department of Linguistics
2015.4 - 2016.3
Country：United States
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Department of English, Konan University
2009.4
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Harvard University Department of Linguistics
2007.9 - 2008.3
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Harvard University Department of Linguistics
1997.9 - 2004.1
Professional Memberships 【 display / non-display 】
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Linguistic Society of America
2001.4
Papers 【 display / non-display 】
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The effect of SOA on lexical decision in Japanese and English: A pilot study
Miki Ishihara, Kentaro Nakatani
IEICE Technical Report TL2024-9(2024-08) 11 - 16 2024.7
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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
This study tested the hypothesis that locality effects are a function of dependency length and type. Adopting activation-based working memory retrieval models (Thi- badeau, Just, and Carpenter 1982; King and Just 1991; Vasishth and Lewis 2006), we assumed that non-thematic dependencies are more prone to memory decay when dependency lengths are greater because they tend to be linearly discontin- uous and, thus, do not receive maintenance support from intervening elements in working memory. We conducted two self-paced reading experiments to test whether NPI-marker sika would invoke a locality effect relative to its nominative control. In Experiment 1, there was no interaction of sika and Locality; in Experi- ment 2, the dependency length in the distance conditions was greater by one word, though we only found a marginal tendency toward an interaction. However, when we included participants’ CA rates in the models, both experiments yielded a sig- nificant three-way interaction of sika, Locality, and participants’ CA rates, such that better readers tended to show greater locality effects (i.e., longer reading times when sika was distant). Such an interaction was not found with semantically comparable dake “only,” suggesting that the requirement for polarity triggered by sika incurred an extra complexity that selectively affected good readers.
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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Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese subject-marking particles wa, ga, and no Invited Reviewed
Toshiki Iwabuchi, Satoshi Nambu, Kentaro Nakatani, Michiru Makuuchi
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives 2 163 - 182 2023.11
Publisher：De Gruyter
DOI： 10.1515/9783110778939-009
Other Link： https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110778939-009/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 International coauthorship
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
Books and Other Publications 【 display / non-display 】
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パソコンがあればできる！ ことばの実験研究の方法 第2版—容認性調査、読文・産出実験からコーパスまで
中谷, 健太郎, 青木, 奈律乃, 浅原, 正幸, 有賀, 照道, 木戸, 康人, 田中, 幹大, 中野, 陽子, 長谷部, 陽一郎（ Role： Edit , Chapters 1, 2 and 8）
ひつじ書房 2024.5 （ ISBN:4823411668 ）
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Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives Vol. 2: Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors
Masatoshi Koizumi（ Role： Contributor , Chapter 3）
De Gruyter Mouton 2023.12 （ ISBN:9783110778816 ）
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Toogoron to Gengogaku Syo Bun-ya to no Intaafeisu [Interface betwen Syntax and Other Linguistic Fields]
Koichiro Nakamura（ Role： Contributor , Chapter 4: Interface between Syntax and Linguistic Performance）
Kaitakusha 2021.11 （ ISBN:4758913560 ）
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The joy and enjoyment of linguistic research : A festschrift for Takane Ito
Reiko Okabe, Jun Yashima, Yusuke Kubota, Tatsuya Isono（“Locality Effects in the Processing of Negative-Sensitive Adverbials in Japanese." pp.462-472）
Kaitakusha 2021.3 （ ISBN:9784758923002 ）
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Yuhikaku Dictionary of Psychology
Koyasu, Masuo, Tanno, Yoshihiko, Hakoda, Yuji（ Role： Contributor , "language production", "linguistic competence", "language comprehension", "lexical functional grammar", "signal communication", "syntactic parsing", "syntax", "Universal Grammar", "grammar"）
Yuhikaku 2021.2 （ ISBN:9784641002661 ）
Review Papers (Misc) 【 display / non-display 】
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[Review] Kageyama, Taro, Peter E. Hook and Prashant Pardeshi: Verb-verb complexes in Asian languages
Kentaro Nakatani
Journal of Japanese Linguistics 38 ( 2 ) 291 - 293 2022.9
Authorship：Lead author Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.
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Morphology
Kentaro Nakatani
2016.4
Authorship：Lead author Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)
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[Review] Louise McNally and Christopher Kennedy (eds.), Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xv+354 pp. Invited
Kentaro Nakatani
Studies in English Literature, English Number 52 260 - 269 2011
Publishing type：Book review, literature introduction, etc.
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Gensoku to Baikai-Hensuu no Riron (III): Jojutu-Riron [The Principles and Parameters Theory (III): Predication Theory, Theta-Theory]
Kentaro Nakatani
Kaigai Gengogaku Joho [Current Trends in Overseas Linguistics] 8 66 - 74 1996
Publishing type：Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)
Presentations 【 display / non-display 】
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The effect of SOA on lexical decision in Japanese and English: A pilot study
Miki Ishihara, Kentaro Nakatani
MAPLL/TL 2024.8
Event date： 2024.8
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Lexically driven pragmatics of -te oku in Japanese.
Kentaro Nakatani
The 40th Annual Meeting of Konan English Literary Society 2024.7
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Affectedness, awareness and re-mention in a maze
Kentaro Nakatani, Shoko Shida
KCP International Workshop 2024 2024.1
Event date： 2024.1
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Processing negative-sensitive elements in Japanese
Kentaro Nakatani
KCP International Workshop 2024 2024.1
Event date： 2024.1
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-Te simau wa hontoo ni kanryoo no asupekuto keisiki nanoka [Is -te simau really an aspect marker?]
Kentaro Nakatani
The 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2023.11
Event date： 2023.11
Works 【 display / non-display 】
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On the asymmetric semantics of coming and going: A study of the V-te kuru/iku constructions in Japanese.
2008.2
Paper presented at the Harvard Linguistics Theory Group, Feb 7, 2008.
Other Research Activities 【 display / non-display 】
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On the asymmetric semantics of coming and going: A study of the V-te kuru/iku constructions in Japanese.
2008.2
Paper presented at the Harvard Linguistics Theory Group, Feb 7, 2008.
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Opposition Structure is not Event Structure: A Study of Cancellable Transition in Japanese V-teiru.
2007.5
Paper presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, May 10, 2007.
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Aspectual Presupposition, Entailment, and Composition in Japanese V-teiru.
2007.3
言語処理学会 第13回年次大会（口頭発表、2007年3月22日、於 龍谷大学）
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Processing Japanese Relative Clauses in Context.
2006.3
Paper presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the CUNY Graduate Center, March 25, 2006. (Ishizuka, T., Nakatani, K., and Gibson, E.)
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文理解における統合と保持 〜日英対照の視点から〜
2005.12
福岡言語学会（口頭発表、2005年12月7日、於 九州大学）
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display 】
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Propositional inferences driven by event semantics: Eye movements and EEG
2020.4 - 2024.3
JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
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2014 - 2016
JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
Kentaro Nakatani
Authorship：Principal investigator
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作業記憶と文処理アーキテクチャの実証的研究:構造的複雑性と構造的頻度の観点から
2009.4 - 2012.3
JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
本研究課題では、日本語話者による漸増的文処理(文が終わるのを待たず入力をどんどん処理していくこと)において、作業記憶への負荷となる条件を読文の速度や脳波を測定することにより検証し、「シカ…ナイ」や「誰ガ…シタカ」といった文法依存関係の処理において、通常の主語述語関係の処理には見られない種類の反応を発見した。これは前者の処理が後者の処理とは異なる記憶のスレッドを利用していることを示唆している。
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2009 - 2011
JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
Kentaro Nakatani, 前田多章, 小野創
Authorship：Principal investigator
本研究課題は、母語話者による日本語の漸増的文処理(文が終わるのを待たず入力をどんどん処理していくこと)において、作業記憶への負荷となる条件を行動実験及び電気生理学的実験により検証することにより、文理解のメカニズムの解明を目指すものである。2009年度は主に予備実験を行った。(1)19チャンネルデジタル脳波計を用いた電気刺激についての予備実験に加え、構文の構造認定に関わる期待値の定量化実験として、言語処理時の事象関連電位(以下,ERPと呼ぶ)を漢字と読みの照合という言語処理過程で観察した。結果は現在分析中だが、これにより,構文認定の関わるERPに混在する形態素解析に起因したERPの成分を把握する一助が期待できる(前田)。(2)否定対極表現「シカ…ナイ」を含む構文において、「シカ」の出現から「ナイ」の出現までに随伴陰性変動(CNV)が観察できるかを検査するため、どのような刺激文と実験パラダイムを組み合わせれば良いかについて綿密な計画を立て、180の刺激文を構築した。現在予備実験中である(中谷・前田・小野)。(3)疑問名詞句「誰が」に対応する疑問終助詞「か」の処理が距離要因の影響下にあるか、行動実験(自己制御読文実験)によって検証した(n=52)。具体的には、二重の節の埋め込みのある文[S1[S2[S3]]]のS2の主語位置に「誰が」を置き、(i)「か」をS2またはS1に置くことに...
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節構造における分断と結束性の調査・研究
2007.4 - 2009.3
JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
"節は、その構造において主要部と補部あるいは主要部と指定部の間に選択関係が成立しているが、こ
の選択関係は、節の解釈を飽和(saturate)させると同時に、文の処理に際しては、次に来る語の予測に
貢献する。本研究において、この選択関係が予測通り実現されている構造を「結束性」(coherence)のある構造と呼ぶ。しかし、英語の統語現象を見てみると、結束性が常に保たれるとは限らない事例が見いだされる。 本研究は、英語が示すこの 結束性と分断という側面に焦点を当てて、[1] 統語論的、[2] 意味論・語用論的、[3] 音声学的、[4] 文理解、の4つの観点から調査・分析を行いこの現象の本質を明らかにする とともに、得られた知見を日本語との対照研究に適用することを目的とする。"
Joint and Contract research activities (Public) 【 display / non-display 】
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生成文法と文理解の相互関係
Joint Research on Campus
2004.4 - 2005.3
生成文法による研究と文理解との相互関係を探る。生成文法理論の目標は簡単に言うならば，子供が言語をどのようにして習得するかの解明であると言えるだろう。そして，その解明のために文法理論はどうあるべきかを探究し続けてきたと言うこともできる。しかし、この研究においては，われわれが現実に文章をどう理解（解析）するかという観点は持っていなかった（仮に持っていても中心的テーマではなかった）ように思われる。本研究チームにおいては、言語に対する二つの方向性を持った研究の現状を正確に把握し、両者の接点を探ることを目指す。
Preferred joint research theme 【 display / non-display 】
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日本語のオンライン処理実験計画、実施などをふくむ共同研究
Committee Memberships 【 display / non-display 】
Social Activities 【 display / non-display 】
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学術誌 Language 査読
2008.11
学術誌 Languageの査読、2008
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日本言語科学会
2007.11
科学会第9回年次大会の査読、2007
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関西言語学会
2006.11
第31回年次大会の運営委員、2006
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学術誌 Language and Cognitive Processes
2003.11 - 2006.11
学術誌 Language and Cognitive Processesの査読、2003、2004、2006
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The Sixteenth CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
2003.11
The Sixteenth CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processingの査読、2003