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Reanalysis of clause boundaries in Japanese as a constraint-driven process.

When processing the initial segment of a sentence, readers may favor an interpretation that will turn out to be incorrect as more words are read. In these cases, a reanalysis process is necessary in order to correct the mental representation built up to that point. It has been previously proposed th...

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Published in:Language & Speech Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 23 - 53
Main Author: Miyamoto ET
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Mar2003
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        affil: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan; miyamoto@alum.mit.edu
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          Grammar
          Japanese Persons
          Language Processing
          Analysis of Variance
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          Japan Ethnology
          Linear Regression
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      ab: When processing the initial segment of a sentence, readers may favor an interpretation that will turn out to be incorrect as more words are read. In these cases, a reanalysis process is necessary in order to correct the mental representation built up to that point. It has been previously proposed that readers obey a minimum change restriction, as they prefer to change the mental representation as little as possible. The present paper reports two experiments in Japanese suggesting that a minimal change restriction is unnecessary to characterize reanalysis. It is proposed instead that the present data and previous observations are more naturally explained by a constraint-driven model in which revisions are performed only when required by parsing constraints.
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