Search Results - "Minai, Utako"

Examining how topicality impacts pronoun resolution in second language processing by Wang, Tingting, Minai, Utako, Gabriele, Alison

“…In research on second language (L2) processing, the processing of reference has been highlighted as a domain of particular difficulty, but the source of the…”
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Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature by Yang, Xiao, Minai, Utako, Fiorentino, Robert

“…The derivation of scalar implicatures for the quantifier has been widely studied to investigate the computation of pragmatically enriched meanings. For…”
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Intonation facilitates contrast resolution: Evidence from Japanese adults and 6-year olds by Ito, Kiwako, Jincho, Nobuyuki, Minai, Utako, Yamane, Naoto, Mazuka, Reiko

“…► This study investigates online processing of contrastive prosody in Japanese adults and children. ► Participants’ eye movements were monitored during a…”
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Morphological Decomposition in Japanese De-adjectival Nominals: Masked and Overt Priming Evidence by Fiorentino, Robert, Naito-Billen, Yuka, Minai, Utako

“…Whether morpheme-based processing extends to relatively unproductive derived words remains a matter of debate. Although whole-word storage and access has been…”
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What Hinders Child Semantic Computation: Children's Universal Quantification and the Development of Cognitive Control by Minai, Utako, Jincho, Nobuyuki, Yamane, Naoto, Mazuka, Reiko

“…Recent studies on the acquisition of semantics have argued that knowledge of the universal quantifier is adult-like throughout development. However, there are…”
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Acquisition and Use of Linguistic Knowledge: Scrambling in Child Japanese as a Test Case by Minai, Utako, Isobe, Miwa, Okabe, Reiko

“…The current study investigates preschool-age children’s comprehension of scrambled sentences in Japanese. While scrambling has been known to be challenging for…”
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Fetal rhythm-based language discrimination: a biomagnetometry study by Minai, Utako, Gustafson, Kathleen, Fiorentino, Robert, Jongman, Allard, Sereno, Joan

“…Using fetal biomagnetometry, this study measured changes in fetal heart rate to assess discrimination of two rhythmically different languages (English and…”
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Children's Knowledge of Structure-Dependent Semantic Interactions Between Logical Words by Johnson, Adrienne, Minai, Utako

“…The current study examined preschool children's ability to evaluate the entailment patterns yielded by sentences containing two downward entailing (DE)…”
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The Influence of Misarticulations on Children's Word Identification and Processing by Krueger, Breanna I, Storkel, Holly L, Minai, Utako

“…Purpose: The purpose of the present studies was to determine how children's identification and processing of misarticulated words was influenced by…”
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Children’s Demonstrative Comprehension and the Role of Non-linguistic Cognitive Abilities: A Cross-Linguistic Study by Chu, Chia-Ying, Minai, Utako

“…Previous studies have shown that young children often fail to comprehend demonstratives correctly when they are uttered by a speaker whose perspective is…”
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Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: Evidence from picture–sentence verification by Hunt, Lamar, Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Gibson, Linzi, Minai, Utako, Fiorentino, Robert

“…► Examined scalar inference processing in a picture–sentence verification ERP study. ► Manipulated felicity while controlling for lexical differences. ► N400…”
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An eye-tracking study examining the role of question-answer congruency in children’s comprehension of only by Lauren Covey, Caitlin E. Coughlin, Utako Minai

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An eye-tracking study examining the role of question-answer congruency in children’s comprehension of only: A preliminary report by Covey, Lauren, Coughlin, Caitlin E, Minai, Utako

“…‘Crain’s puzzle’ is a term that has been used to describe children’s difficulty comprehending the focus operator only when it is in subject position…”
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Three streams of generative language acquisition research by Minai Utako

“…T. Ionin and M. Rispoli. (2019). Three streams of generative language acquisition research…”
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Comprehension of mimetics by adult native speakers of Japanese by Connelly, Patrick, Minai, Utako, Gabriele, Alison

“…Linguistics traditionally regards the relationship between a word's sound and its meaning as arbitrary; words which systematically relate sound and meaning -…”
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The Role of the Focus Operator Only in Children's Computation of Sentence Meaning by Minai, Utako, Fiorentino, Robert

“…Research on children's computation of meanings involving the focus operator only has provided an equivocal conclusion as to whether children's semantic…”
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Assessing Preschool Children’s Knowledge of Compounds from a Logico- Semantic Perspective by Brown, Rachel, Chu, Chia-Ying, Hess, Gretchen, Minai, Utako

“…Research in First Language Acquisition investigates three broad questions: What do children know about language? When does this knowledge emerge? How is…”
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Everyone knows, therefore every child knows: An investigation of logico-semantic competence in child language by Minai, Utako

“…This dissertation discusses children's understanding of semantic contribution of the universal quantifier every and its interactions with negation from a…”
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Everyone knows, therefore every child knows: An investigation of logico-semantic competence in child language by Minai, Utako

“…This dissertation discusses children's understanding of semantic contribution of the universal quantifier every and its interactions with negation from a…”
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Book Review: T. Ionin and M. Rispoli, Three streams of generative language acquisition research by Minai, Utako

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