Lack of working memory load during sentence comprehension
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23520489
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | 文理解 / 文脈 / 曖昧性 / ワーキングメモリ / 関係節 / wh疑問文 / 読み時間 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Working memory is a crucial resource in various mental tasks. However, in Japanese sentence comprehension, results from relative clauses have challenged the explanations provided by working-memory models. One problem with previous experimental results is that most showed sentences in isolation, which may have led to greater ambiguity, thus obscuring the predictions of working-memory factors. As opposed to the complex contexts that have been used in past literature, a new simpler context was used to obtain cleaner results for Japanese. Fragment-completion questionnaires indicate that the context had the desired effect and decreased ambiguity by eliminating expectation for alternative interpretations other than relative clauses. Reading-time experiments confirmed previous results suggesting that working-memory models cannot explain the Japanese results. At a talk to be presented in June 2016, I suggested that closure may work as chunking and may cancel out working-memory effects.
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[Presentation] Processing Japanese sentences as a zero-sum game2015
Author(s)
Shodai Uchida, Manabu Arai, Edson T. Miyamoto, Yuki Hirose
Organizer
17th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
Place of Presentation
Beppu International Convention Center (Oita, Beppu)
Year and Date
2015-07-18
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