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Order in Thought and Language

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26580069
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Koizumi Masatoshi  東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (10275597)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) GYOBA JIRO  東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (50142899)
Research Collaborator Tang Ai-yu  国立東華大学, 民族語言與傳播學系, 専任助理教授
TAKESHIMA YASUHIRO  同志社大学, 心理学部, 助教 (50755387)
TACHIBANA RYO  東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 大学院生
SAITO GODAI  東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 大学院生
ASAOKA RIKU  東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 大学院生
SAKAI HIROMU  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (50274030)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords心理言語学 / OS言語 / 文処理負荷 / 思考の順序 / 語順 / タロコ語 / 認知科学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Goldin-Meadow et al. (2008) examined whether word orders of speakers’ own languages influence their non-verbal behaviors by asking speakers of four languages to describe events non-verbally using gestures. They found that speakers of all four languages preferred to perform gestures in Actor-Patient-Action order. Although they argued that this reflects a natural order of event description for humans, their research is limited in languages with Subject-Object word order. In order to verify their claim, we examined Kaqchikel, employing Object-Subject (VOS) word order. In our non-verbal event description experiment, Kaqchikel native speakers described pictures of transitive events using gestures. We found predominant Actor-Patient order (86.2%) as well as Patient-Actor order (13.8%). These results revealed that event descriptions are not only governed by universal conceptual preference to Actor-Patient order but also influenced by word orders of speakers’ own languages.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2016 2015 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] 国立東華大学(台湾)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Komunidad Linguistica Kaqchikel(グアテマラ)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 態と語順が日本語の文産出時の処理負荷に与える影響について:母語話者と学習者との比較2016

    • Author(s)
      孫猛,小泉政利
    • Journal Title

      言語学論集

      Volume: 24 Pages: 15-30

    • NAID

      120006957934

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 言語の語順と思考の順序―インターフェイス条件の実証的研究にむけて―2015

    • Author(s)
      小泉政利
    • Journal Title

      より良き代案を絶えず求めて

      Volume: 0 Pages: 219-228

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Processing loads related to word order preference during sentence production in Japanese: A NIRS and eye tracking study2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasuhiro Takeshima, Godai Saito, Ryo Tachibana, Riku Asao, Jiro Gyoba, and Masatoshi Koizumi
    • Journal Title

      Tohoku Psychological Folia

      Volume: 73 Pages: 36-45

    • NAID

      120005611734

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] The processing load according to word order preference in utterance - NIRS and eye tracking study in Kaqchikel Maya2015

    • Author(s)
      Ryo Tachibana, Godai Saito, Riku Asaoka, Jiro Gyoba, & Masatoshi Koizumi
    • Organizer
      53th Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology
    • Place of Presentation
      韓国済州島
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-14 – 2015-01-15
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2022-02-28  

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