Dr. Manabu Arai (PhD in Psychology)
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Seijo University
e-mail: manabu-arai [at] seijo.ac.jp
e-mail: manabu-arai [at] seijo.ac.jp
My main research interest is human language processing.
My current research investigates:
the difference in processing between pragmatically implausible sentences and propositionally impossible sentences
the role of cognitive control ability in adults' and children's language comprehension
the role of prediction errors in learning in L1 as well as L2
Japanese learners' development of English phonological representations
2006 PhD, Psychology, University of Dundee, UK.
2002 MSc, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK.
2001 BA, English Language and Literature, School of Education, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
September 2015 - present. Full-time faculty member, Faculty of Economics, Seijo University
April 2013 - August 2015. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo
April 2010 - March 2013. JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo
May 2009 - March 2010. Research Scientist, Special Appointment Employee, Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (PI: Prof. Reiko Mazuka)
September 2008 - April 2009. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh (PI: Dr. Ellen Gurman Bard)
August 2007 - June 2008. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (PI: Dr. Frank Keller)
November 2005 - July 2007. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh (PI: Prof. Martin Pickering)
January 2003 - December 2004. Research Assistant (part-time), University of Dundee
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Arai M. The role of prediction error in second language learning. Second Language, 21, 89–113, 2022. (in Japanese)
Arai, M. & R. P. G. van Gompel. Lexically independent representation of the monotransitive structure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75, 1773－1789, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211061225
Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. L2 learners do not ignore verb's subcategorization information in real-time syntactic processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-13, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689137
Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. An Extra Cue Is Beneficial for Native Speakers but Can Be Disruptive for Second Language Learners: Integration of Prosody and Visual Context in Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Frontier in Psychology. 10, 28-35, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02835
R. P. G. van Gompel, & Arai, M. Structural priming in bilinguals Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 21, 448-455, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728917000542
Arai, M., & Roland, D. Statistical analysis of eye-movement data and reading time data in language comprehension research. Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 2017. *Text in Japanese
Yamada, T., Arai, M., & Hirose, Y. Unforced revision in processing relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence against Revision as Last Resort. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 2017.
Arai, M., & Nakamura, C. It’s harder to break a relationship when you commit long. PLoS ONE. 2016. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156482
Nakamura, C., & Arai, M. Persistence of initial misanalysis with no referential ambiguity. Cognitive Science. published online, 2015.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12266
Arai, M., Nakamura, C, & Mazuka, R. Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 2015.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038389
Ishikawa, M., Arai, M., & Hirose, Y. Shared structural representations for short and full passives in Japanese children and adults, Proceedings of FAJL 7. MITWPL. 101-112, 2014.
Bard, E. G., Hill, R., Foster, M. E., & Arai, M. Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 29, 928-949, 2014.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.895845
Ito, K., Arai, M., & Hirose, Y. The interpretation of phrase-medial prosodic prominence in Japanese: Is it sensitive to visual and discourse context? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30, 167-196, 2015.http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7nFFC7D7mkK4r6N9CHkE/full#.Ut4A19KAbs0
Arai, M. & Mazuka, R. The development of Japanese passive syntax as indexed by structural priming in comprehension. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 67, 60-78, 2014. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470218.2013.790454#.Ud4Q_ztM8rU
Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Harada, Y. The Use of Verb Subcategorization Information in Processing Garden-Path Sentences: A Comparative Study on Native Speakers and Japanese EFL Learners. Studies in Language Sciences: Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences. 12, 43-69. 2013.
Arai, M., & Keller, F. The use of verb-specific information for prediction in sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 525-560. 2013. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01690965.2012.658072
Arai, M. What can head-final languages tell us about syntactic priming (and vice versa)? Language and Linguistics Compass. 545-559. 2012. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lnc3.353/abstract
Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure. Cognition. 125, 317-323. 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.016
Nakamura, C. & Arai, M. Preservation of the Initial Analysis in Absence of Pragmatic Inference with Japanese Relative Clause Sentences. In Proceedings of the CogSci 2012. Hokkaido, Japan. 2012.
Van Gompel, R. P. G., Arai, M., and Pearson, J. The representation of mono- and intransitive structures. Journal of Memory and Language. 66, pp.384-406. 2012. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X11001173
Bard, E. B., Hill, R., & Arai, M. Referring and Gaze Alignment: Accessibility is Alive and Well in Situated Dialogue. In Proceedings of the CogSci 2009. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2009. http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2009/papers/283/index.html
Carminati, M-N., Van Gompel, R. P. G., Scheepers, C. & Arai, M. Syntactic priming in comprehension: The role of argument order and animacy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 34, pp.1098-1110. 2008. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xlm/34/5/1098/
Arai, M., Van Gompel, R. P. G. & Scheepers, C. Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension. Cognitive Psychology. 54, pp.218-250. 2007. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028506000570
Arai, M., Van Gompel, R. P. G. & Pearson, J. Representing verb transitivity information: Evidence from syntactic priming. In Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Identification and Representation of Verb Features and Verb Classes. Saarbrucken, Germany. pp.1-6. 2005.