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Edson T. Miyamoto

Publications
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2008). Processing sentences in Japanese.
In S. Miyagawa & M. Saito (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of
Japanese Linguistics (pp. 217--249). Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press.
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Sato, K., Kobayashi, M., Miyamoto, E. T. (2007).
Lack of implicit prosody effects in deaf readers of Japanese.
Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 23, 35-46.
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Processing alternative word orders in
Japanese. In M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, Y. Shirai and
P. Li (eds.) Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics,
Vol. II: Japanese (pp. 257-263). Cambridge University Press.
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Factors in the incremental
processing of NPs in Japanese. In Otsu, Y. (ed.), Proceedings of
the 7th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (pp. 1-24). Tokyo:
Hitsuji Syobo.
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Understanding sentences in Japanese bit by
bit. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science
Society, 13, 247-260.
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Nakamura, M. & Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Crossed dependencies and
plausibility factors in the interpretation of double-gap relative
clauses in Japanese. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese
Cognitive Science Society, 13, 369-391.
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Nakamura, M. (2005). Unscrambling
some misconceptions: a comment on Koizumi and Tamaoka (2004).
Gengo Kenkyu, 128, 113-129.
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2005). Orações relativas ambíguas e a
homogeneidade do processamento de sentenças. In M. Maia, &
I. Finger (eds.), Processamento da Linguagem
(pp. 71-89). Pelotas, Brazil: Editora da Universidade Católica de
Pelotas.
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Kiguchi, H., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). MEG responses in
the comprehension of Japanese sentences. In Otsu, Y. (ed.),
Proceedings of the 5th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
(pp. 207-228). Tokyo: Hitsuji Syobo.
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Miyamoto, E. T., Nakamura, M., & Takahashi,
S. (2004). Processing relative clauses in Japanese with two attachment
sites. Proceedings of NELS 34 --- North East Linguistics Society
(pp. 441-452). Amherst, Mass.: GLSA Publications.
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2004). Filler-gap dependencies in
the processing of scrambling in Japanese. Language and Linguistics,
5, 153-166.
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Nakamura, M. (2003). Subject/object
asymmetries in the processing of relative clauses in Japanese. In
G. Garding, & M. Tsujimura (Eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd
WCCFL (pp. 342-355). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Finger, I. (2003). Processamento de relativas
em português brasileiro (The processing of relative clauses in Brazilian
Portuguese). Proceedings of the XVII Encotro Nacional da
Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Letras e
Linguística (ANPOLL). Gramado, Brazil, June 2002.
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2003). Reanalysis of clause boundaries in Japanese
as a constraint-driven process. Language and Speech,
46. 23-52.
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Iida, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2002). Corpus counts of NP
sequences in Japanese. Technical report no. 2002015, November 2002.
Nara Institute of Science
and Technology (Ikoma, Japan).
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Miyamoto, E. T. (2002). Case markers as clause boundary inducers in
Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,
31. 307-347.
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). Antecedent reactivation
in the processing of scrambling in Japanese.
MITWPL Vol. 43 (pp. 123-138).
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). Sources of difficulty in
processing scrambling in Japanese. In M. Nakayama (Ed.), Sentence
Processing in East Asian Languages (pp. 167-188). Stanford: CSLI.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). The processing of
wh-phrases in Japanese. Scientific Approaches to Language,
1, 133-172. (Center for
Language Sciences, Kanda
University of International Studies)
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Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). The processing of
wh-phrases and interrogative complementizers in Japanese. In
N. M. Akatsuka, & S. Strauss (Eds.),
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 10 (pp. 62-75).
Stanford: CSLI.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). The processing of wh-phrases
and question particles in Japanese. Researching and Verifying an
Advanced Theory of Human Language, 5, 573-587.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). Sentence-level processing in
Japanese. Studies in Language Sciences --- Kanda University of
International Studies, 7, 89-102.
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Miyamoto, E. T., Gibson, E., Pearlmutter, N. J., Aikawa, T., &
Miyagawa, S. (1999). A U-shaped relative clause attachment preference
in Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes,
14, 663-686.
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Miyamoto, E. T., Wexler, K., Aikawa, T., & Miyagawa, S. (1999).
Case-dropping and unaccusatives in Japanese acquisition. Proceedings
of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development,
443-452, Boston, MA.
Presentations
- Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Incremental processing in
Japanese. Invited talk at the 8th International Forum on Language,
Brain and Cognition --- Linguistics in Cognitive Sciences:
Contributions from East Asian Languages. The Tohoku University 21st
Century COE Program in Humanities. October 13--14, Sendai.
- Iguchi, Y., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). The interpretation of
nominative NPs is modulated by possessor relations. Proceedings the
23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 118-119). Nagoya.
- Kobayashi, M., Miyamoto, E. T., & Sato, K. (2006). Deaf readers'
lack of implicit-prosody effects. Proceedings of the 28th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1629-1634). July
26-29, Vancouver.
- Iguchi, Y., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Possessor relations and
the interpretation of nominative NPs in Japanese. Proceedings of ICCS
2006 --- the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science
(pp. 115-116). Vancouver. July 26, 2006. CD-ROM.
- Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Factors in the incremental processing of
NPs in Japanese. Talk presented at the 7th Annual Tokyo Conference on
Psycholinguistics. March 17/18th, 2006. Tokyo.
- Miyamoto, E. T., Tamura, Y., Kajiwara, A., & Ito,
F. (2005). Word order information in the processing of sentences in
Japanese. Talk presented at the 11th International Conference on
Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005). Hong
Kong. December 2005.
- Miyamoto, E. T. (2005). Scrambling and filler-gap
dependencies. Invited talk at the Second international workshop on
Evolutionary Cognitive Science: In Pursuit of Language-Brain
Interactions --- Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, and
Neurolinguistics. Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The
University of Tokyo, Komaba. July 2005.
- Nakamura, M., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). Processing subject-gap
and object-gap relative clauses in Japanese. Poster presented at the
ICWM-2 Second International Conference on Working Memory 2004. Kyoto,
Japan. August 2004.
- Nakamura, M., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). Processing relative
clauses in Japanese. Talk presented at the Japanese Language
Processing Workshop. University of Electro-Communications. July 2004.
- Kiguchi, H., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). MEG responses in the
comprehension of Japanese sentences. Poster presented at the 17th
CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing. University of
Maryland. March 2004.
- Nakamura, M., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). Word-order and prosody
in the attachment of relative clauses in Japanese. Poster presented
at the 17th CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing. University
of Maryland. March 2004.
- Kiguchi, H., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2004). MEG responses in the
comprehension of Japanese sentences. Talk presented at the 5th Annual
Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Keio University. March 2004.
- Nakamura, M., Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2004). The
influence of word-order and prosody in the comprehension of ambiguous
relative clauses in Japanese. Talk presented at the 5th Annual Tokyo
Conference on Psycholinguistics. Keio University. March 2004.
- Matsumoto, Y., Takaoka, K., Asahara, M., Inui, K., Hashimoto,
K., Ohtani, A., Miyamoto, E. T., Morita, K. (2004). タグ付きコーパ
スの格納/検索ツール:茶器 (Chaki: a storage and search tool for
corpora. In Japanese). Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Natural Language Processing (言語処理学会第10会年次大
会発表論文集, pp. 405-408). Tokyo, Japan. March 2004.
- Miyamoto, E. T. (2003). Processing long-distance dependencies in
Japanese. Invited talk at the 21st National Conference of the English Linguistic Society of
Japan, University of Shizuoka, November 2003.
- Miyamoto, E. T., Nakamura, M., & Takahashi, S. (2003). Processing
relative clauses in Japanese with two attachment sites. Poster
presented at NELS 34, Stony Brook U. November 2003.
- Nakamura, M., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2003). Subject/object gaps and
the processing of relative clauses in Japanese. Poster presented
at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,
MIT/Northeastern U. March 2003 Abstract
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Nakamura, M. (2003). Subject/object asymmetries
in the processing of relative clauses in Japanese. Talk presented at
the WCCFL XXII --- West Coast Conference in Formal
Linguistics. UCSD. March 2003.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Finger, I. (2002). Processamento de Relativas
em Portugues Brasileiro. Talk presented at the XVII Encotro
Nacional da Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao e
Pesquisa em Letras e Linguistica (ANPOLL). Gramado, Brazil, June
2002.
Handout (PDF in English)
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). Typing mismatch effects in
the processing of subject wh-phrases in Japanese. Talk presented at the
15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, NYC. Abstract
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). Filler-gap dependencies in
the processing of scrambling in Japanese. Talk presented at GLOW in
Asia, January 2002, Taiwan.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). Filler-gap dependencies in
non-canonical word orders in Japanese. Talk presented at AMLaP
2001, Saabruecken, Germany. Abstract
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). Antecedent reactivation in
the processing of scrambling in Japanese. Talk presented at
HUMIT (MIT and Harvard University Annual Student Conference on
Language Study). Cambridge, MA.
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). Antecedent reactivation in
the processing of scrambling in Japanese. Talk presented at the
Japanese Language Processing Workshop, Ikoma, Japan.
Handout (PDF).
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2001). A filled-gap effect without
gaps in Japanese. Talk presented at the 14th Annual CUNY Conference on
Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA. Abstract (PDF file)
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2000). Sentence-level
processing in Japanese. Poster presented at
the International
Symposium on Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Research. Kanda
University of International Studies.
Abstract (in Japanese)
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S.. (2000). The processing of
VP-internal scrambling in Japanese. Talk presented at the Japanese Language Processing Workshop, Makuhari, Japan.
Hand-out (PDF file)
- Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2000). The processing of empty
categories in Japanese scrambling. Poster presented at the 13th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, San Diego, CA.
- Miyamoto, E. T. Cross-linguistic variation in human language
processing. (1999). Technical report of the IEICE (Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), 352, 17-24.
- Miyamoto, E. T. (1998). A low attachment preference in Brazilian
Portuguese relative clauses. Talk presented at the AMLaP-98 Conference ---
Architectures and mechanisms for language processing, Freiburg,
Germany. September, 1998. Abstract (PDF file)
- Miyamoto, E. T. (1998). Grammatical requirements versus minimal
change in Japanese reanalysis. Poster presented at the 11th Annual
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New Brunswick, NJ.
Abstract (PDF file)
- Miyamoto, E. T. (1997). Double nominative and double accusative
NPs in Japanese. Poster presented at the 10th Annual CUNY Conference
on Human Sentence Processing, Santa Monica,
CA. Abstract (PDF file)

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