LINGUIST List 11.1401

Thu Jun 22 2000

Confs: Japanese Language Processing Workshop

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1. Miyamoto, Japanese Language Processing Workshop

JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROCESSING WORKSHOP 2000

Makuhari (Chiba), Japan, July 24th 2000


In recent years, several cross-linguistic models have attempted to
explain the processing of head-initial languages as well as head-final
languages. In particular, as a language of the latter type, Japanese
has drawn considerable interest. However, the limited availability of
experimental data on Japanese has made it virtually impossible to
verify the accuracy of such models.

The present workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to
discuss recent issues in the processing of the Japanese language, with
special emphasis on experimental work in adult sentence processing.
The workshop will be divided into three sessions with the following
topics: Scrambling, Reanalysis, and Methodological Issues. 

All presentations and discussions will be conducted in Japanese.

Participation is free, but pre-registration is required. Please, send
an email by July 14 including your name and affiliation (in Japanese
and Roman characters), with the subject line "Registration" to

jlp2000mail.goo.ne.jp 


Information in Japanese is available at:

http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~etm/jlp2000j.htm


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 Japanese Language Processing Workshop 2000

 July 24th, 2000
 Kanda University of International Studies (Makuhari, Chiba)

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10:00-10:30am Introductory talk (Reiko Mazuka)
 Data collection in Japanese sentence processing experiments
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10:30-12:30pm
Session 1: Interplay between grammar and performance: 
 The comprehension and production of scrambling.

 General organization: Edson Miyamoto

 Subtopics:

 - Factors that may cause scrambled word orders to be more difficult to
 process than canonical word orders (frequency, affectedness, memory load)

 - Experimental data as a tool to validate/falsify grammatical proposals

 - Interaction between production and comprehension


 Speakers: Hiroko Yamashita, Shoichi Takahashi.

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12:30-1:30pm Lunch/reception 

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1:30-3:30pm
Session 2: Interaction of multiple sources of information: 
 Embedded clauses and reanalysis.

 General organization: Yuki Hirose

 Subtopic: 

 - Reanalysis in serial models and in parallel models

 - Information sources that affect reanalysis

 - Principles and constraints that govern reanalysis


 Speakers: Masakatsu Inoue, Noriko Nagai, Yuki Hirose.

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 3:30-4:00 Coffee break

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4:00-6:00pm
Session 3: Methodologies

 General organization: Reiko Mazuka

 Subtopics:

 - Neuro scanning (Kenji Itoh)

 - ERP (Hiroko Hagiwara)

 - Corpus analysis (Yasuharu Den)

 - Eye-tracking (Reiko Mazuka)

 - Self-paced reading (Edson Miyamoto)

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For further inquiries, please send email to Edson Miyamoto at 
etmis.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp