| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I investigated these themes: (1) Examining efficiency of a new cueing task in combination with EEG. (2) Examining priming for low- and high-proficient bilinguals (LPB/HPB) when naming English words. (3) Examining which phonological unit is used when naming Kanji compounds. (4) Examining whether the cross-language variation in the size of the unit of word production is due to the type of script used in the language. (5) Constructing an online database which contains information about Japanese kanji and their pronunciations together with their on-reading ratios. From these investigations, I found that low-proficient JP-ENG bilinguals use their L1-unit (mora) to construct speech sounds even in their L2 (English). Conversely, high-proficient JP-ENG bilinguals use the same unit as a native speaker (English). Also I found that kanji can influence the unit of language production. That is, mora overlap might not be enough and the whole pronunciation of the kanji becomes the relevant factor.
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