A research on the effect of Japanese Complex structures on sentence readablity

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25370522
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese linguistics
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Principal Investigator	Oshima Motoo 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (30213705)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	日本語 / 文法 / 連体修飾節 / 接続節 / 翻訳 / 複文構造 / 文の読みやすさ／読みにくさ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study aims to give clear syntactic criteria to sentence readability, which has been mentioned only intuitively in previous researches. The applicant collected complex sentence structures including adnominal clauses and clauses lead by subordinate conjunctions from several Japanese translations of The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, and studied how these structures effect sentence readability.

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