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Time and Space in Contemporary Japanese through Comparative Investigation of Japanese and English Mental Lexicon Structures and Strategies of Temporal and Spatial Description

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21K12977
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Telegina Maria  東京大学, 東京カレッジ, 特任助教 (80870071)

Project Period (FY) 2021-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywordsword associations / mental lexicon / time / space / linguistics / Japanese / English
Outline of Research at the Start

Space and time are the core concept of our perception and speech.
In this project, through analysis of textual and experimental data within the framework of cognitive linguistics, I will conduct a parallel investigation of the two domains of mental lexicon and strategies of temporal and spatial description in English and Japanese.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Through analysis of textual and experimental data within the framework of cognitive linguistics, I investigate temporal and spatial domains of mental lexicon in English and Japanese.

To date, I organised a collection of word association and corpus data for the project. Corpus data are collected from the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Japanese via Universal Dependencies.
Word association data collection is conducted by building a Japanese word association dataset. Since the beginning of the project, it grew to contain 250000 responses from 6200 participants.

The development of online platform to conduct spontaneous speech experiments on temporal and spatial description is in the testing phase. The design for the spontanous speech experiment on spatial description is ready for the pilot.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.

Reason

The delays in work on this project are related to the communication slowing down due to the pandemic. There were difficulties in finding a developer, and there are difficulties related to setting up the online platform for the spontaneous speech experiments.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The pilot for the first spontaneous speech experiment will start in June, and it will be ready for data collection of data by Fall. In September, I will run a pilot of the spontaneous speech experiment on temporal description, and it will be ready for data collection by the end of the year.
In parallel, the collection and analysis of corpus and word association data will continue.

Report

(1 results)
  • 2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2021-04-28   Modified: 2022-12-28  

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