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NAKATANI Kentaro

Position

Professor

Degree

Ph.D. (Linguistics)(Harvard University), Master of Arts(Sophia University), Bachelor of Arts(The University of Tokyo)

Research Field

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

  • Harvard University   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   Department of Linguistics   Graduated

    1995.9 - 2004.3

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  • Sophia University   Graduate Division of Foreign Studies   Graduated

    1992.4 - 1995.3

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  • The University of Tokyo   Faculty of Literature   Department of Linguistics   Graduated

    1987.4 - 1992.3

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  • Harvard University   Department of Linguistics   Linguistics   Doctor's Course   Completed

    1995.9 - 2004.3

  • Sophia University   Graduate School, Division of Foreign Language   Master's Course   Completed

    - 1995.3

Campus Career 【 display / non-display

  • KONAN UNIVERSITY   International Exchange Center   Director in General

    2017.4 - 2021.3

  • KONAN UNIVERSITY   Faculty of Letters   Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language   Professor

    2009.4

  • KONAN UNIVERSITY   Faculty of Letters   Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language   Associate Professor

    2007.4 - 2008.3

  • KONAN UNIVERSITY   Faculty of Letters   Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature and Language   Associate Professor (as old post name)

    2004.4 - 2007.3

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  • University of California, San Diego   Department of Linguistics

    2015.4 - 2016.3

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  • Department of English, Konan University

    2009.4

  • Harvard University   Department of Linguistics

    2007.9 - 2008.3

  • Harvard University   Department of Linguistics

    1997.9 - 2004.1

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  • Linguistic Society of America

    2001.4

 

Papers 【 display / non-display

  • 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

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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

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    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

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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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Review Papers (Misc) 【 display / non-display

  • [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

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    DOI: 10.1515/jjl-2022-2063

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  • Morphology

    Kentaro Nakatani

    2016.4

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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

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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

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Presentations 【 display / non-display

  • Affectedness, awareness and re-mention in a maze

    Kentaro Nakatani, Shoko Shida

    KCP International Workshop 2024  2024.1 

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  • Processing negative-sensitive elements in Japanese

    Kentaro Nakatani

    KCP International Workshop 2024  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 

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    Event date: 2023.11

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  • The effect of contextual information on lexical decision tasks

    Miki Ishihara, Kentaro Nakatani

    IEICE Technical Committee on Thought and Language (TL)  2023.9 

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    Event date: 2023.9 - 2023.10

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  • Toogo koozoo to gengo un'yoo no intaafeisu [Interface of syntactic structure and linguistic performance.] Invited

    Kentaro Nakatani

    The 75th meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan, Kyusyu branch  2022.10 

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Works 【 display / non-display

  • On the asymmetric semantics of coming and going: A study of the V-te kuru/iku constructions in Japanese.

    2008.2

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    Paper presented at the Harvard Linguistics Theory Group, Feb 7, 2008.

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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

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    Paper presented at the Harvard Linguistics Theory Group, Feb 7, 2008.

  • Opposition Structure is not Event Structure: A Study of Cancellable Transition in Japanese V-teiru.

    2007.5

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    Paper presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, May 10, 2007.

  • Aspectual Presupposition, Entailment, and Composition in Japanese V-teiru.

    2007.3

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    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)

  • Processing Japanese Relative Clauses in Context.

    2006.3

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    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.)

  • 文理解における統合と保持 〜日英対照の視点から〜

    2005.12

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    福岡言語学会(口頭発表、2005年12月7日、於 九州大学)

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Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display

  • Propositional inferences driven by event semantics: Eye movements and EEG

    2020.4 - 2024.3

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  • How Are Memory Resources Used in the Processing of SOV Languages: From the Perspective of Dependency Type

    2014 - 2016

    JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

    Kentaro Nakatani

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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

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    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。

  • A Study of Working Memory and Processing Architecture in Sentence Comprehension : From the Perspective of Structural Complexity and Structural Frequency

    2009 - 2011

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    Kentaro Nakatani, 前田多章, 小野創

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    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

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    "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。"

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Joint and Contract research activities (Public) 【 display / non-display

  • 生成文法と文理解の相互関係

    Joint Research on Campus

    2004.4 - 2005.3

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    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

  • 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

  • 2021.4 - 2024.3   Linguistic Society of Japan  Councilor

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  • 2018.4 - 2021.3   Linguistic Society of Japan  Member of standing committee

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  • 2018   関西言語学会  第43回年次大会開催校委員

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  • 2016.9 - 2018.3   日本言語学会  広報委員長

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  • 2016   Events in Language and Cognition (Pre-CUNY Workshop)  Program committee member

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  • 学術誌 Language 査読

    2008.11

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    学術誌 Languageの査読、2008

  • 日本言語科学会

    2007.11

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    科学会第9回年次大会の査読、2007

  • 関西言語学会

    2006.11

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    第31回年次大会の運営委員、2006

  • 学術誌 Language and Cognitive Processes

    2003.11 - 2006.11

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    学術誌 Language and Cognitive Processesの査読、2003、2004、2006

  • The Sixteenth CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

    2003.11

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    The Sixteenth CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processingの査読、2003