Verb-Control Information in Parsing Japanese Reflexive Sentences

1993 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Task ◽  
Probe Position ◽  
Lexical Information ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Control Information ◽  
Reflexive Pronoun ◽  
Probe Recognition ◽  
The Subject

This study explores whether lexical information in verbs influences activation of an antecedent by a Japanese reflexive pronoun, jibun. Verb information specified that the reflexive was bound to an indirect object despite it being ordinarily associated with a subject in Japanese sentences. 30 students were administered a probe-recognition task in which a probe was given either for the subject or for the indirect object immediately after the reflexive or at the end of a sentence following the verb. Recognition times were faster for a subject-probe than for an indirect-object-probe regardless of the probe position. This finding indicates that the reflexive activates only the subject, and verb-control information is not immediately used when parsing Japanese sentences involving the reflexive.

Activation of the Antecedent by the Reflexive in Japanese: A Supplementary Control Experiment

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Control Experiment ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Probe Position ◽  
Recognition Time ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
The Difference

This study is a control experiment for a previous study (Nagata, 1991) that showed activation of an antecedent by a Japanese reflexive, jibun, in syntactically ambiguous sentences. The reflexive involved in the relevant sentences in the previous study was replaced with a word from other parts of speech in this study. This manipulation was done to delete the sentence constituent that might activate any prior antecedent. 24 female students were given a recognition task on which a probe was given either for an indirect object or for a subject either immediately after a replaced word or at the end of a sentence. No difference in recognition time between the indirect object probe and subject probe for either probe position was found. This result indicates that the difference obtained between the two probes in the previous study is attributable to the activation of the antecedent by the reflexive.

scholarly journals Hierarchical structure and memory retrieval mechanisms in agreement attraction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Franck ◽  
Matthew Wagers
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Joint Measurement ◽  
Memory Probe ◽  
Memory Representations ◽  
Probe Recognition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speed Accuracy

AbstractSpeakers occasionally cause the verb to agree with an element that is not the subject, a so-called ‘attractor’; likewise, comprehenders occasionally fail to notice agreement errors when the attractor agrees with the verb. Cross-linguistic studies converge in showing that attraction is modulated by the hierarchical position of the attractor in the sentence structure. We report two experiments exploring the link between structural position and memory representations in attraction. The method used is innovative in two respects: we used jabberwocky materials to control for semantic influences and focus on structural agreement processing, and we used a Speed-Accuracy Trade-off (SAT) design combined with a memory probe recognition task, as classically used in list memorization tasks. SAT allowed us to investigate the full time-course of processing and it enabled the joint measurement of retrieval speed and retrieval accuracy. Experiment 1 first established that attraction arises in jabberwocky sentences, to a similar extent and following the same structure-dependency as in natural sentences. Experiment 2 showed a close alignment between the attraction profiles found in Experiment 1 and memory parameters. Results support a content-addressable architecture of memory representations for sentences in which nouns’ accessibility depends on their syntactic position, while subjects are kept in the focus of attention.

On the Significance of “Double Encoding” for the Superior Recall of Pictures to Names

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham M. Davies ◽  
J. E. Milne ◽  
B. J. Glennie
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Sequential Presentation ◽  
Picture Condition ◽  
Superior Recall ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Better Than

Ten-year-old children who were shown pictures of objects immediately preceded by the object's name recalled the material no better than those exposed to the names of the stimuli alone. Both conditions yielded significantly poorer retention than those in which pictures alone were presented or pictures followed by their names. A second study replicated this result. In addition this demonstrated, by a picture and name recognition task, that the effects could not be due to subjects in the “name prior to picture” condition ignoring the pictorial component. These results were interpreted as contradicting the “double encoding” explanation of the superiority of pictures to names in free recall. Parallel visual and verbal encoding of a pictured object does not facilitate retention unless the verbal cue is actively elicited from the subject by the stimulus. The implications of this result for other studies which have employed either simultaneous or sequential presentation of pictures and names are briefly discussed.

The Cortical Organization of Syntactic Processing Is Supramodal: Evidence from American Sign Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
William Matchin ◽  
Deniz İlkbaşaran ◽  
Marla Hatrak ◽  
Austin Roth ◽  
Agnes Villwock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Temporal Cortex ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Probe Recognition ◽  
Native Signers

Abstract Areas within the left-lateralized neural network for language have been found to be sensitive to syntactic complexity in spoken and written language. Previous research has revealed that these areas are active for sign language as well, but whether these areas are specifically responsive to syntactic complexity in sign language independent of lexical processing has yet to be found. To investigate the question, we used fMRI to neuroimage deaf native signers' comprehension of 180 sign strings in American Sign Language (ASL) with a picture-probe recognition task. The ASL strings were all six signs in length but varied at three levels of syntactic complexity: sign lists, two-word sentences, and complex sentences. Syntactic complexity significantly affected comprehension and memory, both behaviorally and neurally, by facilitating accuracy and response time on the picture-probe recognition task and eliciting a left lateralized activation response pattern in anterior and posterior superior temporal sulcus (aSTS and pSTS). Minimal or absent syntactic structure reduced picture-probe recognition and elicited activation in bilateral pSTS and occipital-temporal cortex. These results provide evidence from a sign language, ASL, that the combinatorial processing of anterior STS and pSTS is supramodal in nature. The results further suggest that the neurolinguistic processing of ASL is characterized by overlapping and separable neural systems for syntactic and lexical processing.

Borrowing non-canonical inverse between Kabardian and Abaza

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Peter M. Arkadiev
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
First Person ◽  
Verbal Morphology ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intransitive Verbs ◽  
Person Hierarchy ◽  
Distant Relative

Abaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, shares with its neighbour and distant relative Kabardian a typologically peculiar use of the deictic directional prefixes monitoring the relative ranking of the subject and indirect object on the person hierarchy. In both languages, the cislocative (‘hither’) prefixes are used if the indirect object outranks the subject on the person hierarchy, and the translocative (‘thither’) prefixes are used in combinations of first person subjects with second person singular indirect objects. This pattern, reminiscent of the more familiar inverse marking and hence called ‘quasi-inverse’, is observed with ditransitive and bivalent intransitive verbs and is almost fully redundant, since all participants are unequivocally indexed on verbs by pronominal prefixes. I argue that this isogloss, shared by West Circassian (a close relative to Kabardian) but not with Abkhaz, the sister-language of Abaza, is a result of pattern replication under intense language contact, which has led to an increase of both paradigmatic and syntagmatic complexity of Abaza verbal morphology.

Indirect object in Manchu-Tungus languages: structural and semantic aspect (in the Orok language)

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-260
Author(s):  
L. V. Ozolinya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Direct Object ◽  
Accusative Case ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Transitive Verbs ◽  
Object Composition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Semantic Aspect ◽  
Trivalent Verbs

For the first time, the paper provides the analysis of the Oroc language object as a syntactic unit combining the semantic and functional aspects of transitive or non-transitive verbs. In the Manchu-Tungus languages, the object is found to be expressed in the morphological forms of the case: direct – in the accusative case and the possessive forms of the designative case, indirect – in the forms of oblique cases. Constructions with indirect objects, the positions of which are filled with case forms of nouns, designate the objects on which the action is aimed, objects from which the action is sent or evaded, objects-addresses, objectsinstruments, etc. Both transitive or non-transitive verbs can take the position of the predicate. The necessary (direct object) and permissible (indirect object) composition of objects in the verb is determined by its valences: bivalent verbs open subjective (subject) and objective (direct object) valences; trivalent verbs reveal subjective, subjective-objective (part of the subject or indirect subject) and objective (indirect object) valences.

Reflexive constructions in German, Spanish, and French as a product of cyclic interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Maddox ◽  
Jonathan E. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Null Subject ◽  
Reflexive Pronoun ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Agreement ◽  
Categorial Status

German sich and Spanish se can have reflexive or anticausative interpretations but only Spanish se can have a passive interpretation. We argue that Spanish Passse is the result of interaction between the subject agreement cycle and the reflexive object cycle. We make two claims: i) pro merges in Spec-Voice in Passse, due to the subject agreement cycle; and ii) se heads Voice due to the reflexive cycle. The types of reflexive constructions a language has depends on the presence/absence of pro and the categorial status of the reflexive pronoun (head or DP). French appears problematic since it has Passse but lacks subject pro. However, Passse existed in Old French (Cennamo 1993), which was a null subject language (Vance 1997). Thus, French is consistent with this claim; i.e., it developed Passse when it had subject pro and se as a head. Passse survived into Modern French as a historical remnant.

Once More the Indirect Reflexive

Antichthon ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Meritt ◽  
Malcolm F. McGregor
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
The Other ◽  
Marshall University ◽  
Reflexive Pronoun ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject

This is the text of Meritt, McGregor and H.T. Wade-Gery published in ATL as D 22, except that has replaced their in line 20.In 1980 the restoration of line 22 was challenged by A.S. Henry: Vindex Humanitatis, Essays in Honour of John Huntly Bishop, edited by B.A. Marshall (University of New England Publishing Unit, Armidale), 17-33. He pointed out that is a reflexive pronoun, which must refer to the subject of the verb to which it is attached. The subject of on the other hand, is ; our restoration, he concluded, is therefore impossible.

Pengecaman Insan Berasaskan Kaedah Profil Sentroid dan Pengelas Rangkaian Neural Buatan

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nooritawati Md Tahir ◽  
Aini Hussain ◽  
Salina Abdul Samad ◽  
Hafizah Husain
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Classification Rate ◽  
Human Recognition ◽  
Gait Features ◽  
Static Images ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

Dalam kajian ini, teknik profil sentroid yang berdasarkan pendekatan berasaskan model digunakan bagi tugas pengecaman insan. Kaedah ini dilaksanakan secara mengekstrak ciri–ciri unik perwakilan isyarat gaya lenggang insan serta bukan insan secara automatik dan pasif berasaskan imej pegun. Untuk menilai kekuatan algoritma sarian teknik profil sentroid yang dihasilkan, Rangkaian Neural Buatan (RNB) digunakan sebagai pengelas. Keputusan yang diperolehi membuktikan ciri sarian profil sentroid sesuai digunakan sebagai perwakilan vektor ciri bagi pengelasan insan dengan kadar pengelasan RNB yang dicapai melebihi 98%. Kata kunci: Pengecaman insan; rangkaian neural tiruan; profil sentroid In this study, centroidal profile which is a model based approach is employed for human recognition task. This is done by extracting unique representation of gait features of the subject automatically and passively from static images of human or non human. To evaluate the effectiveness of the generated centroidal profile, Artificial Neural Network (RNB) is used as classifier. Results attained proven that the centroidal profile is appropriate as feature extraction to be used as feature vectors for human shape classification based on classification rate of RNB achieved specifically above 98%. Key words: Human recognition; artificial neural network (ANN); centroidal profile

The development of person agreement and the cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-296
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Kojima
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Gender Agreement ◽  
Finite Form ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Noun Class ◽  
Person Agreement

Abstract Most Nakh-Daghestanian languages have gender (or noun class) agreement in the verb, but do not have person agreement. This is the case with Chechen and Ingush, which are genetically the closest to Batsbi. Batsbi, by contrast, has developed person agreement with the subject in the verb along with gender agreement. This is assumed to be due to the strong influence of Georgian, which has long been the second language of Batsbi speakers. In Georgian, the verb shows person agreement with the subject as well as with the direct or indirect object. Present-day Batsbi, presumably inspired by the polypersonal agreement of Georgian, further develops the cliticization of non-subject personal pronouns. To put it simply, it seems as though Batsbi attempts to express what a Georgian verb may encode in a single, finite form by means of a verb and a personal pronoun that is cliticized to it.

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