| Budget Amount *help |
¥14,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project attempted to investigate (i) the types of categories that are employed when human beings produce and perceive speech sounds, and (ii) how the interaction of these categories is represented in the brain. The latter is conceived within the Minimalist Program of the generative grammar framework, which regards language as a property of the mind/brain (Chomsky 2005). The results of the project clarified that humans employ phonological categories and phonological-structure-building processes in lexicalization, which are similar in nature to syntactic categories (which are employed for building sentences) and sentence-building processes (which result from the merging of categories). This conclusion takes a stand against the hypothesis that syntax is intrinsically different from phonology (Bromberger & Halle 1989).
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