A5045488990- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Language and cultural evolution
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Topic Modeling
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2024
Nagoya University
2017-2020
Current large language models (LLMs) rely on word prediction as their backbone pretraining task. Although is an important mechanism underlying processing, human comprehension occurs at multiple levels, involving the integration of words and sentences to achieve a full understanding discourse. This study by using next sentence (NSP) task investigate mechanisms discourse-level comprehension. We show that NSP enhanced model’s alignment with brain data especially in right hemisphere demand...
This study explored sentence processing in two typologically distinct languages: Korean, a verb-final language, and Tongan, verb-initial language. The first experiment revealed that sentences arranged the scrambled OSV (Object, Subject, Verb) order were processed more slowly than those canonical SOV order, highlighting scrambling effect. It also found with subject topicalization as swiftly form, whereas object speeds accuracy comparable to sentences. However, since Korean use same...
This study explores neural mechanisms underlying how prior knowledge gained from pre-listening transcript reading helps comprehend fast-rate speech in a second language (L2) and applies to L2 learning. Top-down predictive processing by may play an important role comprehension improving listening skill. By manipulating the effect (pre-listening [TR] vs. no [NTR]) type of languages (first (L1) L2), we measured brain activity learners, who performed tasks during functional magnetic resonance...
Prior theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the subject-object-verb (SOV) word order is more restricted difficult to process than object-subject-verb (OSV) in Chinese. However, few studies have investigated actual acceptability of non-canonical, verb-final orders among native speakers. In this study, we conducted a paper-based survey with group younger adults older adults. Non-canonical sentences without animacy contrasts were tested three tasks: judgement, grammaticality...
Abstract According to UNESCO. 2020. World atlas of languages , 3rd edn. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Available at: https://en.wal.unesco.org the Tongan language is classified as ‘potentially vulnerable.’ This study aimed identify a core vocabulary develop web-searchable database support preservation accessibility language. Due lack large-scale corpus for calculating lexical frequencies, we utilized from Students’ English-Tongan Tongan-English Dictionary...
Trade-off effect in the processing of Korean case-drop sentences: An eye tracking inves ga on Shaoyun Yu¹*, Katsuo Tamaoka¹Nomina ve and accusa case markers are frequently dropped colloquial Korean.Prior studies demonstrate a nomina ve-accusa asymmetry frequency acceptability sentences, which correlates well with implica ons actor iden fica strategy (AIS) extended argument dependency model (eADM).This study gated reading sentences by na speakers using methodology.While was only par ally...