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Language Faculty Viewed from Motion Planning Ability

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25370543
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionSaitama University

Principal Investigator

NISHINA Hiroyuki  埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (20125777)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords動作 / 使役関係 / 関節 / 書き換え規則 / ロボット / 言語起源 / 形態論 / 生物言語学 / 言語の運動起源 / 運動計画の木表示 / 運動計画 / 運動伝播 / 動作文法 / 句構造文法 / 写像 / ロボット動作
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To add some evidence to the proposed language origin in human actions, we have been exploring the possibility of a kinematic grammar of humans, and its comparison of human language grammar. We let a model robot simulate an approximate action of a human, and based on the relation of a joint’s causing another or an endpoint to move, we converted its motion program to a sequence of trees, each of which is generated by a rewriting rule system. These rules proved to be of regular type, whose complexity is known to be one step lower than that of phrase structure rules. We also found that each sequence of terminal strings generated by our kinematic grammar might well be taken as a word rather than a sentence. It has now become crucial that we must turn to the research into the mechanism in which these “words” are to be constructed, semantically as well, into a phrase structure and fit into a integrated clause compatible to a human sentence, in the whole action with a practical purpose.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (4 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] “Comparing Causative Recursion in Kinematic Grammar with Sentence Embedding in Human Grammar”2017

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Nishina
    • Journal Title

      Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] "Rotation Formula Set as the Semantic Model for the Interpretation of Action Sentences"2016

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Nishina
    • Journal Title

      Festschrift for Professor Keiichi Kodier---In Search of the Nature of Language---

      Volume: - Pages: 94-109

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] “Comparing Causative Recursion in Kinematic Grammar with Sentence Embedding in Human Grammar”,2015

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki NISHINA
    • Journal Title

      Abstracts for Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty

      Volume: ー Pages: 55-57

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] “Comparing Causative Recursion in Kinematic Grammar with Sentence Embedding in Human Grammar”,(注記:同題名だが内容は少し異なる)2015

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki NISHINA
    • Organizer
      Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Pavia, Pavia Italy
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-26 – 2015-01-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Comparing Causative Recursion in Kinematic Grammar with Sentence Embedding”2014

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki NISHINA
    • Organizer
      Embodiment Goes Public
    • Place of Presentation
      Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-05 – 2014-12-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Representing the Denotations of Bodily Action Verbs Based on the Propagation of Movements”2014

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Nishina
    • Organizer
      Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science (CTF’14
    • Place of Presentation
      Heirich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-24 – 2014-08-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “The Complexity of the Motion Planning for Actions as Possibly Equivalent to that of Phrase Structure Grammar”

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Nishina
    • Organizer
      Session 2: Origin of Language and human cognition, The 19th International Congress of Linguists,
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Geneva、Switzerland
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] SUCRA

    • URL

      http://sucra.saitama-u.ac.jp/

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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