Masatoshi Koizumi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3837302 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Masatoshi Koizumi |
| PRENOMES | Masatoshi |
| SOBRENOME | Koizumi |
| ASSINATURA | KOIZUMI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tohoku University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0719-7128 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Constructing a web-accessible lexical database for core Tongan vocabulary
According to UNESCO. 2020. World atlas of languages , 3rd edn. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Available at: https://en.wal.unesco.org , the Tongan language is classified as ‘potentially vulnerable.’ This study aimed to identify a core Tongan vocabulary and develop a web-searchable database to support the preservation and accessibility of the language. Due to the lack of a large-scale corpus for calculating lexic…
Guest Editors’ Notes
The role of pitch accent in lexical recognition in Japanese
This study examined (i) the stage at which pitch accents contribute to lexical processing in native Japanese speakers and (ii) the interpretation pathway for the meaning of words pronounced with incorrect pitch accents. Event-related potential analyses during spoken word processing showed that words with incorrect accents elicited greater N400 amplitudes than those with correct accents, indicating that accent information aids in selecting suitabl…
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension
This study examines the neural mechanisms behind integrating syntactic and information structures during sentence comprehension using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Focusing on Japanese sentences with canonical (SOV) and non-canonical (OSV) word orders, the study revealed distinct neural networks responsible for processing these linguistic structures. The left opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus, left premotor area, and left post…
Syntax and processing in Seediq
Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S) precedes the object (O) in canonical word order, there is clear evidence that the SO word order is preferred over the OS word order. We investigate to what extent this SO bias is maintained even in typologically diverse languages like Truku, an Austronesian language, in which the Verb-Object-Subject (VOS…
Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description
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), a…
The role of word order in bilingual speakers' representation of their two languages
Syntax and processing in Seediq
In many languages with subject-before-object as a syntactically basic word order, transitive sentences in which the subject precedes the object have been reported to have a processing advantage over those in which the subject follows the object in sentence comprehension. Three sources can be considered to account for this advantage, namely, syntactic complexity (filler-gap dependency), conceptual accessibility (the order of thematic roles), and p…
Challenging cross-linguistic typology
It is known that consonants can act as boundary markers when they are located at the left edge of a prosodic domain, helping listeners to parse incoming speech. To achieve maximum efficiency in marking out boundaries, those markers should be acoustically salient. In Element Theory, domain markers are represented by the elements |H| and |ʔ|. Being inherently voiceless, these elements stand apart from the other elements, which are spontaneously voi…
The Effect of Emotional State on the Processing of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Reversal Anomalies in Japanese
Case, Primarily in Japanese
Research on case has a long history covering a variety of surface phenomena involving morphology, syntax, and semantics. Researchers in the generative tradition have increasingly focused on the role of case in determining the distribution of noun phrases in various constructions found in typologically diverse languages. This chapter contains reviews of major generative works on case during the past 50 years with special reference to Japanese. We …
Interaction Between Syntactic Structure and Information Structure in the Processing of a Head-Final Language
The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interactio…
On the (non)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension
The processing load of sentences with three different word orders (VOS, VSO, and SVO) in Kaqchikel Maya was investigated using a sentence-plausibility judgment task. The results showed that VOS sentences were processed faster than VSO and SVO sentences. This supports the traditional analysis in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the result r…
Psycholinguistic Evidence for the VP-Internal Subject Position in Japanese
The question of whether the subject stays in its thematic position within the VP or moves to Spec, TP is difficult to answer with respect to free word order languages such as Japanese because the surface constituent orders in these languages do not necessarily provide sufficient information to determine syntactic positions. In this article, we present psycholinguistic evidence for the theoretical hypothesis that, in Japanese, the subject must mov…
Priority Information Used for the Processing of Japanese Sentences
The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times for correct sentence decisions were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs in the first experiment and with ditransitive verbs in the second experiment. Errors were made with scrambled sentences more than canonica…
Remarks on Nominative Objects
Invisible Agr in Japanese
The purpose of this article is to show that, even in a language like Japanese which lacks overt morphological agreement, Agreement Phrases not only exist, but also play an important role in the grammar. Evidence comes primarily from facts about scope interaction in certain complex predicate constructions. The article also presents indirect support for the core idea of Watanabe's (1993) three-layered Case theory
On the nature of the "dative" particle ni in Japanese
La grammaire traditionnelle japonaise classe les particules post-NP en deux categories, les postpositions et les marqueurs de cas. La particule ni pose un probleme car elle presente des caracteristiques des deux categories. L'A. examine le comportement de cette particule dans des contextes differents et montre qu'il y a quatre types de ni: la marque du cas datif, la postposition, l'insertion et la forme de copule
Secondary predicates
Remarks on Japanese subjects
Priority Information Used for the Processing of Japanese Sentences
The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times for correct sentence decisions were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs in the first experiment and with ditransitive verbs in the second experiment. Errors were made with scrambled sentences more than canonica…
On the nature of the "dative" particle ni in Japanese
La grammaire traditionnelle japonaise classe les particules post-NP en deux categories, les postpositions et les marqueurs de cas. La particule ni pose un probleme car elle presente des caracteristiques des deux categories. L'A. examine le comportement de cette particule dans des contextes differents et montre qu'il y a quatre types de ni: la marque du cas datif, la postposition, l'insertion et la forme de copule
Psycholinguistic Evidence for the VP-Internal Subject Position in Japanese
The question of whether the subject stays in its thematic position within the VP or moves to Spec, TP is difficult to answer with respect to free word order languages such as Japanese because the surface constituent orders in these languages do not necessarily provide sufficient information to determine syntactic positions. In this article, we present psycholinguistic evidence for the theoretical hypothesis that, in Japanese, the subject must mov…
On the (non)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension
The processing load of sentences with three different word orders (VOS, VSO, and SVO) in Kaqchikel Maya was investigated using a sentence-plausibility judgment task. The results showed that VOS sentences were processed faster than VSO and SVO sentences. This supports the traditional analysis in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the result r…
Remarks on Japanese subjects
The role of word order in bilingual speakers' representation of their two languages
The Effect of Emotional State on the Processing of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Reversal Anomalies in Japanese
Interaction Between Syntactic Structure and Information Structure in the Processing of a Head-Final Language
The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interactio…
Remarks on Japanese subjects
Secondary predicates
On the nature of the "dative" particle ni in Japanese
La grammaire traditionnelle japonaise classe les particules post-NP en deux categories, les postpositions et les marqueurs de cas. La particule ni pose un probleme car elle presente des caracteristiques des deux categories. L'A. examine le comportement de cette particule dans des contextes differents et montre qu'il y a quatre types de ni: la marque du cas datif, la postposition, l'insertion et la forme de copule
Remarks on Nominative Objects
Invisible Agr in Japanese
The purpose of this article is to show that, even in a language like Japanese which lacks overt morphological agreement, Agreement Phrases not only exist, but also play an important role in the grammar. Evidence comes primarily from facts about scope interaction in certain complex predicate constructions. The article also presents indirect support for the core idea of Watanabe's (1993) three-layered Case theory
Priority Information Used for the Processing of Japanese Sentences
The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times for correct sentence decisions were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs in the first experiment and with ditransitive verbs in the second experiment. Errors were made with scrambled sentences more than canonica…
Psycholinguistic Evidence for the VP-Internal Subject Position in Japanese
The question of whether the subject stays in its thematic position within the VP or moves to Spec, TP is difficult to answer with respect to free word order languages such as Japanese because the surface constituent orders in these languages do not necessarily provide sufficient information to determine syntactic positions. In this article, we present psycholinguistic evidence for the theoretical hypothesis that, in Japanese, the subject must mov…
On the (non)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension
The processing load of sentences with three different word orders (VOS, VSO, and SVO) in Kaqchikel Maya was investigated using a sentence-plausibility judgment task. The results showed that VOS sentences were processed faster than VSO and SVO sentences. This supports the traditional analysis in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the result r…
Case, Primarily in Japanese
Research on case has a long history covering a variety of surface phenomena involving morphology, syntax, and semantics. Researchers in the generative tradition have increasingly focused on the role of case in determining the distribution of noun phrases in various constructions found in typologically diverse languages. This chapter contains reviews of major generative works on case during the past 50 years with special reference to Japanese. We …
Interaction Between Syntactic Structure and Information Structure in the Processing of a Head-Final Language
The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two factors is not restricted to head-initial languages. The second experiment revealed that the interactio…
Challenging cross-linguistic typology
It is known that consonants can act as boundary markers when they are located at the left edge of a prosodic domain, helping listeners to parse incoming speech. To achieve maximum efficiency in marking out boundaries, those markers should be acoustically salient. In Element Theory, domain markers are represented by the elements |H| and |ʔ|. Being inherently voiceless, these elements stand apart from the other elements, which are spontaneously voi…
The Effect of Emotional State on the Processing of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Reversal Anomalies in Japanese
Syntax and processing in Seediq
In many languages with subject-before-object as a syntactically basic word order, transitive sentences in which the subject precedes the object have been reported to have a processing advantage over those in which the subject follows the object in sentence comprehension. Three sources can be considered to account for this advantage, namely, syntactic complexity (filler-gap dependency), conceptual accessibility (the order of thematic roles), and p…
Syntax and processing in Seediq
Syntactic properties such as word orders are a major factor determining the difficulty of a sentence. In SO-type languages where the subject (S) precedes the object (O) in canonical word order, there is clear evidence that the SO word order is preferred over the OS word order. We investigate to what extent this SO bias is maintained even in typologically diverse languages like Truku, an Austronesian language, in which the Verb-Object-Subject (VOS…
Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description
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), a…
The role of word order in bilingual speakers' representation of their two languages
Constructing a web-accessible lexical database for core Tongan vocabulary
According to UNESCO. 2020. World atlas of languages , 3rd edn. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Available at: https://en.wal.unesco.org , the Tongan language is classified as ‘potentially vulnerable.’ This study aimed to identify a core Tongan vocabulary and develop a web-searchable database to support the preservation and accessibility of the language. Due to the lack of a large-scale corpus for calculating lexic…
Guest Editors’ Notes
The role of pitch accent in lexical recognition in Japanese
This study examined (i) the stage at which pitch accents contribute to lexical processing in native Japanese speakers and (ii) the interpretation pathway for the meaning of words pronounced with incorrect pitch accents. Event-related potential analyses during spoken word processing showed that words with incorrect accents elicited greater N400 amplitudes than those with correct accents, indicating that accent information aids in selecting suitabl…
The crucial role of the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA44) in synergizing syntactic structure and information structure during sentence comprehension
This study examines the neural mechanisms behind integrating syntactic and information structures during sentence comprehension using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Focusing on Japanese sentences with canonical (SOV) and non-canonical (OSV) word orders, the study revealed distinct neural networks responsible for processing these linguistic structures. The left opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus, left premotor area, and left post…
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