Awards
SUGIOKA, Yoko
Linguistic Society of Japan Presentation Award
- Awardee name
- Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoko Sugioka, Takane Ito
- Awarding organization
- Linguistic Society of Japan
We conducted an ERP (event-related potential) measurement experiment in the violation paradigm to investigate whether sequential voicing (rendaku) in Japanese is a regular process of rule application or is based on lexical memory. When rendaku was applied to words lexically specified to resist rendaku, a LAN component followed by a P600 was observed, while applying rendaku against a phonological constraint known as Lyman’s Law elicited a P600 component alone. Failure of rendaku application where it should apply yielded an N400. Consideration of these results in comparison with the results reported in previous ERP studies on regular/irregular dichotomy in inflectional morphology leads us to argue that rendaku voicing is a regular process involving rule application.
Japanese Cognitive Science Society Award
- Awardee name
- Yoko Sugioka, Takane Ito, Hiroko Hagiwara
- Awarding organization
- Japanese Cognitive Science Society
There has been much controversy concerning the mental mechanisms involved in the processing of complex words, especially between the dual mechanism theory and the single mechanism theory over inflectional morphology. In this article we present a new set of data from Japanese causatives drawn from the experiments on aphasic patients, which show that two different types of causatives may involve two different mechanisms of rule and associative memory, thus demonstrating the validity of the dual mechanism theory over the processes of derivational morphology.