Pub Date : 2020-04-27DOI: 10.1007/s10831-020-09210-y
Zhong Chen, Yuhang Xu, Zhiguo Xie
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Pub Date : 2020-03-12DOI: 10.1007/s10831-020-09205-9
Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, Amy J. Schafer, Masatoshi Koizumi
The embodied cognition hypothesis postulates that human cognition is fundamentally grounded in our experience of interacting with the physical world (Barsalou in Behav Brain Sci 22:577–609, 1999). Research has shown bi-directional associations between physical action and the processes of understanding language: language comprehension seems to activate implied visual and motor components (Zwaan and Taylor in J Exp Psychol Gen 135(1):1–11, 2006), and action behavior seems to facilitate the comprehension of associated action-language (Beilock et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:13269–13273, 2008). Although numerous research studies have reported a link between action and language comprehension, the exact nature of their association remains subject to debate (Chatterjee in Lang Cognit 2:79–116, 2010). Moreover, the role of action in the production of language is under-explored, as are general language production processes in Austronesian languages. The endangered Austronesian language Truku provides typological patterns that are both under-examined in psycholinguistic research and informative for questions of language production. Truku allows flexibility in the relative location of verbs versus arguments in sentence production, and uses a symmetrical voice system that marks the prominence of different participants in an event. Working with native speakers of Truku, we tested whether performing physical motions immediately affects the conceptual saliency of the components represented in a to-be-described event in ways that guide speakers’ visual attention and shape their utterance formulation. More specifically, we investigated whether speakers’ engagement as an agent or patient in a non-speech physical action affects initial eye-fixations on agent versus patient participants in a visual scene, as well as word order and grammatical voice choices in the speakers’ descriptions of simple transitive events. The results revealed significant effects of physical action on the relative location and prominence of agents in subsequent sentence formulation, and on online patterns of eye fixations. These results provide further support for language-action connections in cognitive processing, and shed light on the cross-linguistic patterns of sentence production.
具身认知假说认为，人类的认知从根本上建立在我们与物质世界互动的经验基础上(Barsalou in behavior Brain Sci 22:57 - 609, 1999)。研究表明，身体动作与语言理解过程之间存在双向关联:语言理解似乎激活了隐含的视觉和运动成分(Zwaan和Taylor in J Exp Psychol Gen 135(1):1 - 11,2006)，而动作行为似乎促进了相关动作语言的理解(Beilock et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:13269-13273, 2008)。尽管许多研究报告了行动和语言理解之间的联系，但它们之间联系的确切性质仍然存在争议(Chatterjee in Lang Cognit 2:79-116, 2010)。此外，行动在语言产生中的作用尚未得到充分探讨，南岛语的一般语言产生过程也是如此。濒临灭绝的南岛语Truku提供的类型学模式在心理语言学研究和语言生产问题上都没有得到充分的研究。Truku允许在句子中动词和论点的相对位置上具有灵活性，并使用对称的语音系统来标记事件中不同参与者的突出位置。通过与母语为Truku的人合作，我们测试了身体运动是否会立即影响待描述事件中所代表的成分的概念显著性，从而引导说话者的视觉注意力并塑造他们的话语结构。更具体地说，我们调查了说话者在非言语身体动作中作为代理人或病人的参与是否会影响视觉场景中对代理人和病人参与者的初始注视，以及说话者在描述简单及物事件时的语序和语法语音选择。结果显示，肢体动作对言语主体在后续句子构成中的相对位置和显著性以及在线注视模式有显著影响。这些结果为认知加工中的语言-动作联系提供了进一步的支持，并揭示了句子生成的跨语言模式。
{"title":"Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description: an eye-tracking study in a VOS language","authors":"Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, Amy J. Schafer, Masatoshi Koizumi","doi":"10.1007/s10831-020-09205-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09205-9","url":null,"abstract":"The embodied cognition hypothesis postulates that human cognition is fundamentally grounded in our experience of interacting with the physical world (Barsalou in Behav Brain Sci 22:577–609, 1999). Research has shown bi-directional associations between physical action and the processes of understanding language: language comprehension seems to activate implied visual and motor components (Zwaan and Taylor in J Exp Psychol Gen 135(1):1–11, 2006), and action behavior seems to facilitate the comprehension of associated action-language (Beilock et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:13269–13273, 2008). Although numerous research studies have reported a link between action and language comprehension, the exact nature of their association remains subject to debate (Chatterjee in Lang Cognit 2:79–116, 2010). Moreover, the role of action in the production of language is under-explored, as are general language production processes in Austronesian languages. The endangered Austronesian language Truku provides typological patterns that are both under-examined in psycholinguistic research and informative for questions of language production. Truku allows flexibility in the relative location of verbs versus arguments in sentence production, and uses a symmetrical voice system that marks the prominence of different participants in an event. Working with native speakers of Truku, we tested whether performing physical motions immediately affects the conceptual saliency of the components represented in a to-be-described event in ways that guide speakers’ visual attention and shape their utterance formulation. More specifically, we investigated whether speakers’ engagement as an agent or patient in a non-speech physical action affects initial eye-fixations on agent versus patient participants in a visual scene, as well as word order and grammatical voice choices in the speakers’ descriptions of simple transitive events. The results revealed significant effects of physical action on the relative location and prominence of agents in subsequent sentence formulation, and on online patterns of eye fixations. These results provide further support for language-action connections in cognitive processing, and shed light on the cross-linguistic patterns of sentence production.","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"1905 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01DOI: 10.1007/s10831-020-09203-x
Kyeong-min Kim, Chung-hye Han, Keir Moulton
{"title":"The syntax of Korean VP anaphora: an experimental investigation","authors":"Kyeong-min Kim, Chung-hye Han, Keir Moulton","doi":"10.1007/s10831-020-09203-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09203-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"31 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-020-09203-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52410492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-30DOI: 10.1007/s10831-019-09202-7
Sze-Wing Tang
It is argued in this paper that a sentence should consist of at least three layers, namely proposition, grounding, and response, which are formed by a number of functional categories, such as Event, Temp, Focus, Degree, and CoA. A cartographic analysis of the performative projections can be supported by the data of the sentence-final particles in Cantonese, focusing on the sentence-final particle ho and other members of the h-family, which may allow us to have a better understanding of the syntax of the speech act domain and should have implications for the cross-linguistic study of the performatives and the theory of the Universal Grammar.
{"title":"Cartographic syntax of performative projections: evidence from Cantonese","authors":"Sze-Wing Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09202-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09202-7","url":null,"abstract":"It is argued in this paper that a sentence should consist of at least three layers, namely proposition, grounding, and response, which are formed by a number of functional categories, such as Event, Temp, Focus, Degree, and CoA. A cartographic analysis of the performative projections can be supported by the data of the sentence-final particles in Cantonese, focusing on the sentence-final particle <i>ho</i> and other members of the <i>h</i>-family, which may allow us to have a better understanding of the syntax of the speech act domain and should have implications for the cross-linguistic study of the performatives and the theory of the Universal Grammar.","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"57 7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-13DOI: 10.1007/s10831-020-09213-9
Duk-Ho An
In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On the surface, RNC may appear to be a case of the usual NP comparative construction in that two NPs are involved. But, unlike typical NP comparatives, the element bearing the marker of the standard of comparison in RNC does not directly participate in the comparison, i.e., there is a mismatch between the standard and pivot. I argue this is due to the fact that the standard is reduced to leave only the pivot on the surface, hence the name "reduced" NP comparatives. I also argue that one of the factors that determines the availability of RNC is the notion of comparability, which is based on whether or not the compared elements can be associated with the same scale, where the scale is part of the semantics of the gradable predicate (Cf. Kennedy 2009). The interesting twist is that RNC is possible only if the relevant elements are not comparable with each other, i.e., they should denote different types of objects that cannot be associated with the same scale. Adopting Merchant's (The syntax of silence: sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, Linguist Philos 27:661-738, 2004, J Greek Linguist 9:134-164, 2009, among others) move-and-delete approach to various ellipsis constructions, I propose a move-and-delete analysis of RNC, where the pivot undergoes movement, followed by deletion of the rest of the standard. The discussion also has implications for NP-ellipsis in Korean.
{"title":"Reduced NP comparatives in Korean and their implications.","authors":"Duk-Ho An","doi":"10.1007/s10831-020-09213-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09213-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, I examine a novel type of comparative construction in Korean, namely, reduced NP comparatives (RNC), and consider its implications. On the surface, RNC may appear to be a case of the usual NP comparative construction in that two NPs are involved. But, unlike typical NP comparatives, the element bearing the marker of the standard of comparison in RNC does not directly participate in the comparison, i.e., there is a mismatch between the standard and pivot. I argue this is due to the fact that the standard is reduced to leave only the pivot on the surface, hence the name \"reduced\" NP comparatives. I also argue that one of the factors that determines the availability of RNC is the notion of comparability, which is based on whether or not the compared elements can be associated with the same scale, where the scale is part of the semantics of the gradable predicate (Cf. Kennedy 2009). The interesting twist is that RNC is possible only if the relevant elements are not comparable with each other, i.e., they should denote different types of objects that cannot be associated with the same scale. Adopting Merchant's (The syntax of silence: sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001, Linguist Philos 27:661-738, 2004, J Greek Linguist 9:134-164, 2009, among others) move-and-delete approach to various ellipsis constructions, I propose a move-and-delete analysis of RNC, where the pivot undergoes movement, followed by deletion of the rest of the standard. The discussion also has implications for NP-ellipsis in Korean.</p>","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"29 3","pages":"337-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-020-09213-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38298575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s10831-019-09197-1
H. Morita
{"title":"The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of covert pied-piping in Sinhala and Japanese Wh-questions","authors":"H. Morita","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09197-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09197-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"307 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-019-09197-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47121207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s10831-019-09201-8
Kate-Leigh Pilson
{"title":"Papers on Seediq: Grammar and processing","authors":"Kate-Leigh Pilson","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09201-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09201-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"357 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-019-09201-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48940547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s10831-019-09199-z
E. Aldridge
{"title":"Labeling and verb-initial word order in Seediq","authors":"E. Aldridge","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09199-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09199-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"359 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-019-09199-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41750008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntax and processing in Seediq: an event-related potential study","authors":"Masataka Yano, Keiyu Niikuni, Hajime Ono, Manami Sato, A. Tang, Masatoshi Koizumi","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09200-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09200-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"395 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10831-019-09200-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44490304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-27DOI: 10.1007/s10831-019-09196-2
Man Lu, Anikó Lipták, Rint Sybesma
This paper offers an analysis of ka41, an aspectual element in Changsha Xiang Chinese. It is argued that this element occupies a position in the inner-aspectual structure of the clause, between the higher aspectual marker ta21 and the lower elements expressing a lexical result (like clean in wash clean). On the basis of its co-occurrence with various verb types, we treat ka41 as an achievement marker: when present, it blocks any reading in which the denoted event proceeds along a multi-point scale, allowing only the instantaneous, two-point scale reading in which the beginning and the endpoint of the event coincide. On the basis of its syntactic distribution we argue that the syntactic position ka41 occupies is an intermediate aspectual projection (Asp2P) in the inner aspect domain, which is sandwiched between the lowest inner aspectual projection dedicated to telicity and the highest one signaling perfectivity (or realization of the end point). We review the implications of the analysis for the aspectual domain of Mandarin clauses and point out that the intermediate inner aspectual projection (Asp2P) we introduce for Changsha appears to be a suitable syntactic position for the structural analysis of the small set of grammaticalized items generally known as “Phase complements” as well.
{"title":"A structural account of the difference between achievements and accomplishments: evidence from Changsha Xiang Chinese","authors":"Man Lu, Anikó Lipták, Rint Sybesma","doi":"10.1007/s10831-019-09196-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-019-09196-2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers an analysis of <i>ka</i><sup>41</sup>, an aspectual element in Changsha Xiang Chinese. It is argued that this element occupies a position in the inner-aspectual structure of the clause, between the higher aspectual marker <i>ta</i><sup>21</sup> and the lower elements expressing a lexical result (like <i>clean</i> in <i>wash clean</i>). On the basis of its co-occurrence with various verb types, we treat <i>ka</i><sup>41</sup> as an achievement marker: when present, it blocks any reading in which the denoted event proceeds along a multi-point scale, allowing only the instantaneous, two-point scale reading in which the beginning and the endpoint of the event coincide. On the basis of its syntactic distribution we argue that the syntactic position <i>ka</i><sup>41</sup> occupies is an intermediate aspectual projection (Asp2P) in the inner aspect domain, which is sandwiched between the lowest inner aspectual projection dedicated to telicity and the highest one signaling perfectivity (or realization of the end point). We review the implications of the analysis for the aspectual domain of Mandarin clauses and point out that the intermediate inner aspectual projection (Asp2P) we introduce for Changsha appears to be a suitable syntactic position for the structural analysis of the small set of grammaticalized items generally known as “Phase complements” as well.","PeriodicalId":45331,"journal":{"name":"Journal of East Asian Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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