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100 1 Hara, Yukie
245 10 Sentence comprehension of event structure in English and
Japanese: An evaluation of the interaction between
grammatical aspect and lexical aspect
300 281 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-
06(E), Section: A
500 Adviser: Amy J. Schafer
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2014
520 When we describe situations in daily life, we use temporal
cues in language, such as tense, properties of events in
verbs (lexical aspect), and forms of progressive or
perfective (grammatical aspect). These cues play a role in
conveying and interpreting when an event takes place and
whether the event is ongoing or completed.
Psycholinguistic studies have reported effects of these
cues in sentence processing, although the possibility of
interaction effects between them has been underexplored.
Attested effects of grammatical aspect may be those of
interaction with lexical aspect. Certain combinations of
lexical and grammatical aspect are favored in child
language across languages, and recent studies have
reported that certain combinations also facilitate adult
sentence processing. Moreover, the effect of grammatical
aspect may not equally influence an entire event
representation, but focus on specific event parts
highlighted by interaction with lexical aspect
520 This dissertation focuses on interaction between
grammatical aspect and other sources of temporal cues in
sentence processing. Experiment 1 examined English
processing in cases of mismatch between lexical and
grammatical aspect. Experiments 2, 3, 4, and 5 tested
English and Japanese to identify whether the higher
processing cost of imperfective over perfective sentences
comes from event durativity or grammatical aspect. Event
focus is explored in Japanese, where the imperfective
aspect can focus on ongoing event parts (progressive
reading) or an end-state (resultative reading), by
interaction with lexical aspect. Experiments 6, 7, 8, and
9 investigated the resiliency of event representations
marked by grammatical aspect in light of the role of event
focus in Japanese
520 The findings did not support the study's original
assumptions that the interaction of grammatical aspect and
lexical aspect has an effect on sentence processing.
Grammatical aspect's manifestation of its role and effects
is not interfered with by interaction with lexical aspect;
at the same time, its psychological reality in human
sentence processing is not as universally stable as
previous studies assume.
590 School code: 0085
650 4 Linguistics
650 4 Language
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710 2 University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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