| Budget Amount *help |
¥15,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,540,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
A longitudinal learner corpus (about 360,000 words in 1,836 essays written by 245 learners over the course of 8 weeks) was compiled. An analysis of this corpus found that factors such as the number of words and the number of clauses affected essay ratings. An examination of mean syntactic distances of syntactic tree fragments extracted from the corpus showed that learner tree fragments were lower in syntactic complexity compared to those of native speakers. The results of an eye-tracking experiment showed that regarding double object constructions, learners may have similar syntactic knowledge to native speakers to predict the constructions. By using syntactic tree fragments as the basic units of language processing, the possibility of a comprehensive description of the development of second language processing has been confirmed.
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