Order in Thought and Language
| Project/Area Number |
26580069
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
GYOBA JIRO 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (50142899)
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| 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)
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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