NDLI: Identifying empty subjects by modality information: the case of the Japanese sentence-final particles -yo and -ne

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Author	Tamaoka, Katsuo Matsumoto, Michiaki Sakamoto, Tsutomu
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	The present study conducted four experiments to investigate how modality information provided through the sentence-final particles -yo and -ne were utilized in identifying an empty subject by native Japanese speakers. Experiment 1 conducted a whole-sentence anomaly decision task, finding that base sentences without -yo and -ne attached were processed more quickly than sentences with either -yo or -ne and that sentences with -yo were processed more quickly than the same sentences with -ne. A delay in processing sentences with -ne was created by the ambiguity of an empty subject identified by -ne as either ‘I’ or ‘you’. In Experiment 2, the auxiliary verb -ou ‘let us’ was added to the base sentence before -yo and -ne, providing a cue to identify the empty subject as ‘we’. Although the base sentences were processed more quickly than those containing the particles -yo and -ne, no other difference resulted from the attachment of these particles. To eliminate the possibility of orthographic-length effects, Experiment 3 compared base sentences with -ou, -ou-yo, and -ou-ne, finding no difference among them (i.e., no ortho- graphic-length effects). Experiment 4 was conducted to further eliminate the possible involvement of discourse-level computation by utilizing base sentences with overt subjects, past tense verbs, and the auxiliary verb -rasii ‘appear to’. Once subjects of sentences were clearly shown, there was no difference among base sentences and those with either -yo or -ne attached (i.e., no discourse-level computation effects). Thus the present study proved that the modality information inherent in the particles -yo and -ne was used for identifying empty subjects.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	170
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258558
Journal	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728560
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2007-04-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Empty subject Japanese sentence-final particles Modality information Prodrop language Discourse-level computation Languages and Literature Theoretical Languages Chinese Japanese Comparative Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language History and Philosophy of Science

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