| Budget Amount *help |
¥19,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,530,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Linguistic expressions are not merely ‘beads-on-a string,’ with terminal elements arranged from left to right; rather, they are intrinsically associated with invisible abstract hierarchical structures. Without precisely understanding the properties of the abstract structures, it is simply impossible to elucidate the nature of human language faculty. This research project attempted to put forth, and experimentally verify, a strong theoretical hypothesis that dependencies observed on terminal strings in human language are linguistically legitimate only to the extent that abstract structures behind the dependencies are generable by the structure-building operation (called Merge) of human language faculty. We demonstrated for the first time that artificial dependencies, which do not conform to structures generated by Merge, cannot fully activate the language areas in the left brain.
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