How to resolve grammatical judgment variability
| Project/Area Number |
24720181
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Aichi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORITA Hisashi 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30381742)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | wh-question / intervention effect / pair-list reading / multiple wh-question / pied-piping / quiz question / minimal link condition / unselective binding / WH-question / Japanese / Sinhala / quantity question / large-scale pied-piping / presupposition / wh-island / successive-cyclicity / WH疑問文 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research attempts to explain why grammatical judgment differs among native speakers and provide methods to resolve such an issue. There is a phenomenon called the intervention effect in Japanese Linguistics. Examples are ??{daremo/dareka/Ken-ka Mary}-ga nani-o katta no?everyone/someone/Ken or Mary-Nom what-Acc bought Q'What did {everyone/someone/Ken or Mary} bought?'
However, grammatical judgment of the phenomenon is variable among speakers, and this fact leads some researchers to a pragmatic account. Nevertheless, the current research has shown that the phenomenon is indeed syntactic, and the variability arises because the intepretation of the sentence is ambiguous between an ordinary wh-question and a quiz wh-question, both of which are identical phonologically. Accordingly, native speakers cannot decide which questions they have been asked, unless they are provided with proper contextual information.
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Research Products
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