Papers and Posters

Papers

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- Sentence Processing

Masaya Yoshida and Tetsuya Sano (2002) Psycholinguistic studies on Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses. in M. Cristina Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds). Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (FAJL3), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #41.
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Masaya Yoshida (2002) When negative statements are easier: Processing of Polarity Items in Japanese. ms. UMD (1st. draft/witout references)

Masaya Yoshida (2003) Sentence Processing and Island Constraints. Invited talk at the 21st National Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Shizuoka, November 2003.
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Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2004) Use Of Grammatical Constraints In The Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima& Colin Phillips (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Masaya Yoshida (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. Major area qualification paper.

Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) The Source of the Bias for Longer Filler-Gap Dependencies in Japanese. Paper presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. At University of Arizona, Tucson.

Masaya Yoshida (2005) Island Constraints and Japanese Sentence Processing. Paper presented at CNL Lunch Talk 09.29.05, at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Masaya Yoshida (2005) Why is Japanese not Difficult to Process (and Sometimes it is)? Invited talk at University of Ottawa, Seminar in Psycholinguistics.

Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, Hajime Ono & Colin Phillips (in preparation) Conditionals and Long-distance Dependency Formation in Japanese.

Kaori Ozawa, Tomohiro Fujii & Masaya Yoshida (in preparation) Constraints on Coreference in the Online Processing of pro and Backwards Anaphora in Japanese.

- Syntax

Masaya Yoshida (2001) On the specificity condition. Paper presented at the Syntax Meeting 2001 at University of Maryland at College Park.

Masaya Yoshida (2002a.) Notes on the NP-contained ACD and related matters. ms. UMD (1st. draft/without references)

Masaya Yoshida (2002b.) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition or LF-condition?. ms.UMD

Masaya Yoshida (2003b.) Non-Antecedent-Contained Sluicing: A study on adjunct sluicing. Paper presented at the Syntax Meeting 2003 at University of Maryland at College Park.

Masaya Yoshida (2004a.) Gapping inside NP?, Paper presented at Student Conference 2004 at University of Maryland at College Park.

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Masaya Yoshida (2004b.) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition or LF-condition? Minor area qualification paper.

Masaya Yoshida (2004c) Gapping inside NP? in Pritha Chandra, Tomohiro Fujii, Usama Soltan & Masaya Yoshida (eds.) University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 13. 245-262. University of Maryland at College Park.

Masaya Yoshida (2005a) The rightward movement analysis of gapping in NP and its structural implications. Paper presented at The 24th West Coast Coference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Masaya Yoshida (2005b) Crossing Under Cover: Neutralization of WCO Effect Under Sluicing. Ms. University of Maryland at College Park.

Masaya Yoshida (2005c) Sometimes Smaller is Better: Sluicing, Gapping and Semantic Identity. Paper to be presented at NELS 36 at Univerity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Japanese Sluicing as a specificational pseudo-cleft. Paper presented at Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. At Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono & Masaya Yoshida (2006) When a Complement PP Goes Missing: A Study on the Licensing of Swiping. Paper to be presented at The 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25) . At Washington University, Seattle.
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Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono & Masaya Yoshida (in preparation) PP Runs Away from Home: The Uneconstructable Movement in Pseudogapping.
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Masaya Yoshida (in preparation) Weak but Effective: A Study on Adjunct Islands in Japanese.
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Tomohiro Fujii & Masaya Yoshida (in preparation) Weak Islands and Binding Reconstruction in Japanese.

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Posters

Masaya Yoshida (2002) When negative statements are easier: processing of polarity items in Japanese. Poster presentet at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. at City University of New York, New York, March 2002.

Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida & Colin Phillips (2004) The Real-time Application of Structural Constraints on Binding in Japanese. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
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Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips (2004) Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Conditions in Sentence Generation. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.

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Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Constraints on Coreference in the Online Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

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Chun-Chien Hsu, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Cues for Head-Final Relative Clauses in Chinese. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

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