Influence of Contextual Information on Sentence Processing

• Project/Area Number: 24520484
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: NAKANO Yoko 関西学院大学, 人間福祉学部, 教授 (20380298)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
• Keywords: 文脈情報 / 関係節付加曖昧構文 / 統語処理 / 日本語 / 英語 / 文脈の影響 / 文処理 / 統語的あいまい性 / 関係節 / 心理言語学 / 先行文脈 / 国際情報交換 / トルコ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated the influence of contextual information in the text preceding a complex noun phrase involving ambiguous relative-clause attachments (a relative clause+ NPa no NPb) in Japanese. A corpus study revealed several types of relationships between the antecedents and their corresponding referents in the preceding text. The results for offline experiments indicated contextual influence on relative-clause attachments. The first-pass duration obtained in eye-tracking experiments showed the overall facilitation effect of context but it did not indicate any significant interaction between the contextual conditions and attachment biases or did not indicate any contextual influence on the attachment decision at the early stage of processing. The experiments were also conducted in L1 and L2 English. Although the results for L1 English were similar to those for the Japanese experiments, those for L2 English indicated the contextual influence from the early stage of processing.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 中国人日本語学習者の関係節付加の曖昧性解消における先行文脈の影響～文完成課題に基づいて (2014)
  • Author(s): 申嬌輝、中野陽子、池本優
  • Journal Title: 信学技法 Volume: 14 Pages: 89-93
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 第二言語としての日本語における関係節付加曖昧構文の処理 (2013)
  • Author(s): 中野陽子、カフラマン バルシュ
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 Volume: 113 Pages: 29-32
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 日本人英語学習者のフィラー・ギャップ構文の処理―フィラー再活性化仮説 (2012)
  • Author(s): 中野陽子、池本優
  • Journal Title: 2012年度日本認知科学会第29回発表論文集 Volume: - Pages: 687-692
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Event-Related Potential Studies on M-Scrambling of Dative and Accusative Noun Phrases in Japanese (2015)
  • Author(s): Yuki Kojima, Fumie Sugimoto, Jun’ichi Katayama, and Yoko Nakano
  • Organizer: 言語科学会
  • Place of Presentation: 別府国際コンベンションセンター（大分県, 別府市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-18 – 2015-07-19
• [Presentation] Processing Japanese Wh-questions in L1 and L2 Japanese ―A Comparative Study for L1-Japanese and L1-Chinese speakers― (2015)
  • Author(s): Tingting and Yoko Nakano
  • Organizer: 日本第二言語習得学会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学（広島県, 東広島市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-06 – 2015-06-07
• [Presentation] The processing of Japanese inflected forms in native and non-native speakers (2015)
  • Author(s): Yu Ikemoto and Yoko Nakano
  • Organizer: The 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism
  • Place of Presentation: Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA）
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-20
• [Presentation] The processing of Japanese inflected forms in native and non-native speakers (2015)
  • Author(s): Yu Ikemoto and Yoko Nakano
  • Organizer: 関西心理言語学研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学（大阪府, 大阪市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-10
• [Presentation] 英語の関係節付加曖昧構文への文脈の影響について (2015)
  • Author(s): 中野陽子
  • Organizer: 公開ワークショップ 神経科学と心理言語学
  • Place of Presentation: 九州大学（福岡県, 福岡市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-14 – 2015-02-15
• [Presentation] Contextual Influence on the Resolution of Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguities in L1 and L2 English (2014)
  • Author(s): Nakano, Y., Ikemoto, Y, & Nuspliger, B.
  • Organizer: EUROSLA 2014
  • Place of Presentation: University of York(York, UK)
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-03 – 2014-09-06
• [Presentation] Contextual Effects on Sentence Processing in L1 and L2 English (2014)
  • Author(s): Yoko Nakano
  • Organizer: AILA World Congress 2014, August 12th 2014
  • Place of Presentation: Brisbane's Convention Centre （Brisbane, Australia）
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-12
• [Presentation] Contextual Influence on the Resolution for Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguities in L1 and L2 English (2014)
  • Author(s): Nakano, Y., Ikemoto, Y, & Nuspliger, B.
  • Organizer: 日本第二言語習得学会
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学（大阪府, 大阪市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-30 – 2014-05-31
• [Presentation] 第二言語としての日本語における関係節付加曖昧構文の処理
  • Author(s): 中野陽子、カフラマン バルシュ
  • Organizer: 思考と言語
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学
• [Presentation] トルコ人日本語学習者における関係節付加曖昧性の解消と音韻的長さの影響
  • Author(s): 中野陽子、カフラマン バルシュ
  • Organizer: 第二言語習得研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学
• [Presentation] 事象関連電位を指標とした日本語かき混ぜ文の処理過程
  • Author(s): 小嶌友輝、杉本史恵、片山順一、中野陽子
  • Organizer: ことばの科学会オープンフォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 関西学院大学
• [Presentation] 日本語かき混ぜ文におけるフィラーギャッ プ依存関係の処理過程―事象関連電位を指標として
  • Author(s): 小嶌友輝、杉本史恵、片山順一、中野陽子
  • Organizer: 科研基盤(B)「日本語における名詞句と動詞の統合過程に関する心理言語学的研究」 （研究代表：坂本勉）主催公開ワークショップ「脳波から見えてくる文理解研究の諸相」
  • Place of Presentation: 九州大学
• [Presentation] 第二言語におけるフィラー・ギャップ依存関係の処理とその研究方法
  • Author(s): 中野陽子
  • Organizer: 関西英語教育学会
  • Place of Presentation: 仙台国際センター
  • Invited
• [Book] L2 Sentence Processing:Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Research Paradigms. In (eds.) R.R. Heredia, J. Altarriba, & A.B. Cieslicka, Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research. (2015)
  • Author(s): Dieter G. Hillert and Yoko Nakano
  • Publisher: Splinger
• [Remarks] Yoko Nakano’s Psycholinguistic Lab
  • URL: http://psyling.in.coocan.jp/Yoko_Nakanos_Psycholinguistic_Web_Site/Blog/Blog.html