Publications

Publications

PDF (in Japanese) Yoshida, J., Miyamoto, Edson T. (2017). The 154th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 非対格動詞と非能格動詞の漢語動詞の読み時間の比較.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2016).   Working memory fails to explain  subject-extraction advantages (and object-extraction advantages) in relative clauses in Japanese. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016), June 4-5. University of Tokyo, Komaba.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T., & Tsujino, K. (2016). Subject relative clauses are easier in Japanese regardless of working memory and expectation. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016), June 4-5. University of Tokyo, Komaba.

PDF Tsujino, K., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2016). Chinese learners of Japanese read relative clauses faster when subject-extracted in L2 (and object-extracted in L1). Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016), June 4-5. University of Tokyo, Komaba.

PDF Yamazaki, Y., Kohita, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2016). Phonological interference affects kanji earlier than kana during silent sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 18th Annual International Conference (JSLS2016), June 4-5. University of Tokyo, Komaba.

PDF Kohita, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2016). (In Japanese) 話者の認識を利用した主語の人称推定モデル. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the The Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2016). Tohoku University.

PDF Wilson, B. G., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2015). Proficiency effects in L2 processing of English number  agreement across structurally complex material. Proceedings of the 151st Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Nagoya University.

PDF Siriwittayakorn, T.,  Miyamoto, E. T., &  Ratitamkul, T. (2015). Contextual Effects and Locality Preferences in Relative Clause Attachment in Thai. Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (4th European Conference on Cognitive Science; 10th International Conference on Cognitive Science) (pp. 686-691).

PDF Kohita, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2015).  Behavioral shyness inhibits self-disclosure in face-to-face but not in Twitter-based interactions. (In Japanese: Twitterでのシャイな人々の自己開示 ~行動シャイネスと自己開示抑制~) Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (pp. 452-461).

PDF Miyamoto. E. T., et al. (2014). Information Structure and the Comprehension of Non-Canonical Word Orders in Japanese. Tsukuba Ooyoo Gengogaku Kenkyu, 21, 31-41.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2014). Understanding wh-questions in context. In S. Kawahara and M. Igarashi (Eds.), Proceedings of FAJL 7: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 73, pp. 125-130.

PDF Kohita, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2014). Crowdsourcing surveys for research purposes - Lancers as a case study (クラウドソーシングサイトでの質問紙調査と研究への利用 - Lancers をサンプルモデルとして-). IEICE Technical Report (THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS). University of Tokyo, Komaba.

PDF Kohita, R., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2014). Shy users' self-disclosure on Twitter (In Japanese: Twitter 上でのシャイなユーザーの自己開示). IEICE Technical Report (THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS). Chiba University.

PDF Nakamura, M., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2013). The object before subject bias and the processing of double-gap relative clauses in Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 303-334.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.634179 

PDF Miyamoto, Edson T. & Nakamura, M. (2013). Unmet Expectations in the Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Japanese. Proceedings of CogSci 2013 - 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, July 31 -- August 3.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2012).  Review of Processing and Producing Head-final Structures (Ed. by Hiroko Yamashita, Yuki Hirose and Jerome L. Packard).  English Linguistics (Kaitakusha),  29, 567-578.

PDF Hamada, F., & Miyamoto, E. T. (2012). Theory of mind in man-machine interactions. In M. K. Kundu, S. Mitra, D.  Mazumdar & S. K. Pal (Eds.), Perception and Machine Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 7143 (pp. 84-89).  Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDFMiyamoto, 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.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2006). Understanding sentences in Japanese bit by bit.Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 13, 247-260.

PDF 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.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T., & Nakamura, M. (2005). Unscrambling some misconceptions: a comment on Koizumi and Tamaoka (2004).Gengo Kenkyu, 128, 113-129.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2004). Filler-gap dependencies in the processing of scrambling in Japanese.Language and Linguistics, 5, 153-166.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2003). Reanalysis of clause boundaries in Japanese as a constraint-driven process. Language and Speech, 46. 23-52.

PDF 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).

PDF Miyamoto, E. T. (2002). Case markers as clause boundary inducers in Japanese.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,31. 307-347.

PDF. Miyamoto, E. T., & Takahashi, S. (2002). Antecedent reactivation in the processing of scrambling in Japanese.MITWPL Vol. 43 (pp. 123-138).

PDF 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)

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

PDF 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.

Dissertation

• Miyamoto, E. T. (1999).Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese. Doctoral Dissertation. MIT.

Presentations

Yoshida, J., Miyamoto, Edson T. (2017). Violating Burzio's generalization is bad, no matter how often you see it. The 25th Japanese/Korean Conference. University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Uchida, S., Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T. \& Yuki Hirose (2015). Prune early or prune late? Surprisal will cost you either way. March 19-21, 2015, University of Southern California. The 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Siriwittayakorn, T.,  Miyamoto, E. T.,   Ratitamkul, T., & Cho, H. (2014). A Non-local attachment preference in the production and comprehension of Thai relative clauses. The 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. Phuket, Thailand.

Miyamoto, E. T. (2014). Where dues are due: representations, algorithms,  heuristics, rationality, morality, the kitchen sink,… Invited talk at the workshop 「日本語の文理解研究のこれまでとこれから」. September 27, Kyushu University, Fukuoka.

Miyamoto, E. T. (2011). Understanding sentences in Japanese. Invited talk at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing. March 7, Toyohashi University of Technology. 

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)