Tatsuya Aoyama, Georgetown University
Friday, February 19, 8 – 9 AM EST

Description: In this talk, I will present a multifactorial corpus-based study that investigated Chinese and Japanese speakers’ use of definite, indefinite, and zero articles, based on 2,461 noun phrases annotated for relevant syntactic, morphological, and semantic factors.  A multinomial extension of Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis with Regressions (MuPDAR) provided insights into how such factors affect the nativelikeness of the non-native speakers’ article use, and how such effects differ for the three article types and for the first language backgrounds.

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https://msu.zoom.us/j/92762873127
Meeting ID: 927 6287 3127
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