| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research has presented evidence for the neuroplasticity and autonomousnature of competence in processing and generatingphonological units in Williams syndrome. Basedon orthography-free phonological data obtained from the subject’s performance in backward ludling (a word-reversing language game), this research has shown that geminates and long vowels share acommon lexical structure. To unify the structures of the two longsegments, it introduced a new concept of ‘floating mora’ in phonological theory. Thisresearch has contributed to raising awareness about the linguistic relevance of atypical language, which in itself warrants proper linguisticinvestigation.
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