Publications

Book chapters

• Nakamura, C., & Flynn, S. (To appear). Eye-tracking and self-paced reading: Evaluation of experimental technologies in investigating the processing of relative clause sentence structures by Japanese L2 learners of English. In Handbook of technological advances researching language learning. Ed. Karim Sadeghi. Routledge.

• Miyamoto, Y., Otaki, K., Nakamura, C., & Yusa, N. (To appear). On the nature of operators in the grammar of L1 Chinese learners of L2 Japanese. In E. Babatsouli (Ed.), Multilingual acquisition and learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Journal articles

• Berzak, Y., Nakamura, C., Smith, A., Weng, E., Katz, B., Flynn, S., & Levy, R. (2022). CELER: A 365-participant corpus of eye movements in L1 and L2 English reading. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 1-10. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00054

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. (2022) L2 learners do not ignore verb's subcategorization information in real-time syntactic processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-13 Access here  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689137

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. & Jun, S-A. (2021) Integrating prosody in anticipatory language processing: how listeners adapt to unconventional prosodic cues, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.2010778 Access here

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., Flynn, S. (2020). 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. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2835 Access here https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02835

• Nakamura, C.,Arai, M. & Harada, Y. (2019). Difference between L1 and L2 language processing in the use of subcategorization information: Evidence from syntactic priming. 言語研究 (Gengokenkyu), 155, 1-33 (Text in Japanese). Access here https://doi.org/10.11435/gengo.155.0_1

• Arai, M. and Nakamura, C. (2016). It's harder to break a relationship when you commit long. Plos One, 11, e0156482. Access here https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156482 

• Nakamura, C., and Arai, M. (2015). Persistence of an initial misinterpretation without referential ambiguity. Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 40, 909-940. Access here https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12266

• Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Mazuka, R. (2014). Predicting the unbeaten path with garden path sentences: Evidence from structural priming of Japanese relative clauses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 482-500. Access here https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038389

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Harada, Y. (2013). 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. Access here 

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka R. (2012). Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure. Cognition, 125, 317-323. Access here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.016

• Nakamura, C. (2012). The effect of prosodic boundary in understanding English sentences by Japanese EFL learners. Second Language, 11, 47-58. (Text in Japanese) https://doi.org/10.11431/secondlanguage.11.0_47

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

• Turco, G., Yoo H., & Nakamura, C. (2024). Traitement incrémental de la prosodie en L2. To appear in Proceedings of JEP-Taln Recital 2024

• Nakamura, C., Yoo H., & Turco, G. (2024). Incremental Processing of Prosody in L2:  A Visual World experiment with French learners of English. To appear in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2024

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J., & Jun, S-A. (2021). Adaptation to atypical contrastive accent: The L2 advantage. BUCLD 45 Proceedings, 568-583.  Access here

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. (2020). Learning to anticipate contrast with prosody: A visual world study with L2 learners. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 861-871.  Access here DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-177

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. (2019). Listener's belief influences prosodic adaptation: Anticipatory use of contrastive accent during visual search. Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, 447-451. Access here

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., Jun, S. A., & Hirose, Y. (2019). L2 adaptation to unreliable prosody during structural analysis: A visual world study. Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, 454-468. Access here 

• Berzak, Y.  Nakamura, C. Flynn, S. & Katz, B. (2017). Predicting native language from gaze. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 541-551. Access here DOI: 10.18653/v1/P17-1050

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M. Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. (2016). Prosody helps L1 speakers but confuses L2 learners: Influence of L+H* pitch accent on referential ambiguity resolution. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8. 577-581. Access here DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-118

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M. & Harada, Y. (2015). Effect of prosody on resolving reduced relative clause ambiguity in L2 sentence processing. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the English Language Education Society of Japan. 61-68. (Text in Japanese) Access here

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Harada, Y. (2013). The influence of the initial misanalysis in the processing of ambiguous sentences by L2 learners of English. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the English Language Education Society of Japan. 53-56. (Text in Japanese)

• Nakamura, C. & Arai, M. (2012). Preservation of the initial analysis in absence of pragmatic inference with Japanese relative clause sentences. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 34, 791-796. Access here

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Harada, Y. (2012).  The use of subcategorization information of a verb in processing English garden-path sentences among Japanese learners of English. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the English Language Education Society of Japan. 43-48. (Text in Japanese)

International Conference Presentations

Paper = oral presentation, poster = poster presentation

2024

• Turco, G., Yoo H., & Nakamura, C. (2024). Traitement incrémental de la prosodie en L2. Poster to be presented at JEP-Taln Recital 2024, Toulouse, France.

•  Nakamura, C., Yoo H., & Turco, G. (2024). Incremental Processing of Prosody in L2:  A Visual World experiment with French learners of English. Poster to be presented at the 14th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2024

• Nakamura, C. Sentence processing in L2: Universality and language-specific effects in prosody integration. Invited talk at Technical Committee on Thought and Language (TL). March 2024. 

•  Nakamura, C. Teaching psycholinguistics in English. Paper presented at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting. January 2024. The 54th Annual Joint Meeting of JELES: English Language Education Society of Japan and Japanese Association for Educational Linguistics (JELES-54). March 2024.

•  Nakamura, C., Flynn, S., & Tamaoka, K. L1 vs. L2: Persistence of processing cost due to differences in relative clause configuration. Poster presented at 2024 LSA Annual Meeting. January 2024. 

2021

• Ito, K.,  Nakamura, C., Kylie, S., Traci, F., Thomas, N., Suzanne, F., Jongmin, J., & Bethany, F. L2 processing of subject-verb agreement (SVA): They hear it but can't process it? Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2021). September 2021. 

2020

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. Learning to anticipate with unconventional prosodic mappings: The L2 advantage . Poster presented at the 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. November 2020. Poster video

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. Learning to anticipate contrast with prosody: A visual world study with L2 learners . Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody. May 2020. Talk video

2019

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. Listener's belief influences prosodic adaptation: Anticipatory use of contrastive accent during visual search. Paper presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2019. August 2019.

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. Listeners' belief about the speaker and adaptation to the deviant use of prosody. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado Boulder, March 2019. 

• Harris, J. A., Nakamura, C., Bethany Sturman, & Jun, S. A. Prosody-meaning mismatches in PP ambiguity: Incremental processing with pupillometry. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado Boulder, March 2019. 

2018

• Nakamura, C., Harris, J. A., & Jun, S. A. Adaptation to speaker-specific prosody during visual search. Paper presented at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics 2018, University of Southern California, December 2018.

• Nakamura, C., Harris, A. J., Jun, S. A., & Hirose, Y. L2 adaptation to unreliable prosody during structural analysis: A visual world study. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2018.

• Nakamura, C., Harris, A. J., & Jun, S. A. Cue reliability affects anticipatory use of prosody in processing globally ambiguous sentences. Paper presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis, March 2018. Talk video

• Nakamura, C., Harris, A. J., Jun, S.A., & Hirose, Y. Predictive processing and reliability in the influence of prosody in L2 structural analysis. Poster presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, UC Davis, March 2018.

2017

• Nakamura, C., Harris, A. J., & Jun, S.A. Anticipatory effects and the reliability of prosody in processing globally ambiguous structures. Paper presented at the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, UCLA, December 2017.

• Nakamura, C. The use of prosody by children, adults, and learners: Similarities and differences. Invited Symposium at the Japan Society for Language Sciences 19th Annual International Conference, Kyoto Women’s University, July 2017.

• Berzak, Y.  Nakamura, C. Flynn, S. & Katz, B. Predicting native language from gaze. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, July 2017.

2016

• Nakamura, C., & Flynn, S. It needs to be specific: Contribution of semantic information in L2 learners' processing of English relative clause structures. Paper presented at the 35th Second Language Research Forum, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 2016.

• Nakamura, C., & Flynn, S. Semantic ambiguity makes it difficult for L2 learners to understand English relative clause sentences. Poster presented at the 10th International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, University of Vienna, Austria, September 2016.

• Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Hirose, Y. Priming from a previously predicted but unseen verb. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Basque, Spain, September 2016.

• Ying, D. & Nakamura, C. Language switching costs in picture naming: Evidence from highly proficient Chinese learners of Japanese. Poster presented at the 9th International Workshop on Language Production. La Jolla, California, U.S.A., July 2016.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. Prosody helped L1 speakers but confuses L2 learners: Influence of L+H* pitch accent on referential ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, U.S.A., June 2016.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. Restricted fine-grained parsing in second language: Influence of lexically specific information in L2 processing.  Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 2016.

2015

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Flynn, S. Prosody can mislead L2 learners down "A Garden Path": Evidence from a visual-world eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, U.S.A., November 2015.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M.,  Hirose, Y., & Harada, Y. Grain problem in L2 sentence processing: Evidence for L2 learner's use of lexically specific information. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Malta University, September, 2015.

• Deng, Y. & Nakamura, C. Verb repetition boosts priming of voice but not word order: Evidence from transitive sentence production in Japanese. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Malta University, September, 2015.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Hirose, Y. What is helpful for native speakers can be misleading for L2 learners: Evidence for misinterpretation of contrastive prosody. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angels, USA, March 2015.

2014

• Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Hirose, Y. Thematic fit does not always help ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2014.

• Arai, M., Hirose, Y., & Nakamura, C. Getting ready for a surprise. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2014.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Harada, Y., & Hirose, Y. Processing filler-gap dependencies in L2: Evidence for the use of subcategorization information. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, May 2014.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., Harada, Y., & Hirose, Y. Processing filler-gap dependencies in L2: Evidence for the use of subcategorization information. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio, USA, March 2014.

2013

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Harada, Y. Priming of an initially adopted structure in L2 processing. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Marseille, France, September 2013.

• Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T., Hirose, Y., & Nakamura, C. The influence of structural ambiguity on an antilocality effect in Japanese. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Marseille, France, September 2013.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M. & Harada, Y. Syntactic priming of the initial analysis in L2 comprehension: Evidence from a self-paced reading study with Japanese EFL learners. Poster presented at the 15th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, June 2013.

• Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T., Nakamura, C., & Hirose, Y. Surprising Surprisal: No free lunch during sentence comprehension. Paper presented at the 14th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Japan, March 2013.

2012

• Nakamura, C. & Arai, M. What makes readers to commit to (incorrect) pre-head attachment in Japanese? Poster presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2012.

• Arai, M., Hirose, Y., Nakamura, C., & Miyamoto, E. T. Priming the internal structure of noun-phrases in comprehension. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2012.

• Nakamura, C. & Arai, M. Preservation of the initial analysis in absence of pragmatic inference with Japanese relative clause sentences. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan, August 2012.

• Nakamura, C. & Arai, M. The persistence of the initial misanalysis without pragmatic inference: Evidence from Japanese relative clause structure. Paper presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, U.S.A., March 2012.

• Ito, K., Nakamura, C., & Mazuka, R. Effects of visual and discourse contexts and prosody on referential resolution. Paper presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, U.S.A., March 2012.

2011

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. Prediction of the correct structural analysis driven by contextually appropriate prosodic information. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France, September 2011.

• Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Mazuka, R. Predicting a dispreferred structural alternative as a result of syntactic priming in comprehension. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Paris, France, September 2011.

• Ito, K., Nakamura, C., & Mazuka, R. Interaction between context-driven salience and prosody during referential resolution. Poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, Montréal, Canada, September 2011.

• Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. Listeners can use prosodic cues to avoid being garden-pathed. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, U.S.A., March 2011.

• Arai, M., Nakamura, C., Mazuka, R. An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing garden-path sentences. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, U.S.A., March 2011.

2010

• Nakamura, C., Harada, Y., Ishizaki, S. How Japanese-English learners pay attention to prosodic cues to spoken English sentences. Paper presented at ELSJ international spring forum 2010, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, April 2010.