Establishing the experimental method for eye-tracking research on Japanese sentence processing

• Project/Area Number: 26770134
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Seijo University (2015-2016); The University of Tokyo (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Arai Manabu 成城大学, 経済学部, 専任講師 (20568860)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 眼球運動 / 日本語理解 / 関係節文 / 予測 / 動詞末位型言語 / 統計分析 / 眼球運動測定 / 言語理解 / 構造的曖昧性 / 日本語関係節 / 予測処理 / 構造的予測 / 関係節

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examined the validity of the expectation-based model in the processing of Japanese sentences by using eye-tracking technique. The results from multiple experiments revealed that Japanese readers process sentences incrementally just as English readers but importantly, the frequencies of structural configurations accompanied with case markers and the timing for the arrival of disambiguating information influences the estimation of probabilities for possible structural options. I also published a paper that discusses standard experimental design and reasonable statistical analysis for eye-tracking research on Japanese sentence processing.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 言語理解研究における眼球運動データ及び読み時間データの統計分析 (2016)
  • Author(s): 新井学
  • Journal Title: 統計数理 Volume: 64 Pages: 201-231
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 第二言語の理解と学習における誤りの重要性 (2016)
  • Author(s): 新井学
  • Journal Title: 成城大学『経済研究』 Volume: 214 Pages: 73-96
  • NAID: 120005972359
• [Journal Article] Unforced Revision in Processing Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence Against Revision as Last Resort (2016)
  • Author(s): Toshiyuki Yamada, Manabu Arai, and Yuki Hirose
  • Journal Title: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Volume: - Issue: 3 Pages: 1-54
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10936-016-9457-8
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] 言語理解研究における眼球運動データ及び読み時間データの統計分析 (2016)
  • Author(s): 新井学, Douglas Roland
  • Journal Title: 統計数理 Volume: 16
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] It's harder to break a relationship when you commit long (2016)
  • Author(s): Manabu Arai, Chie Nakamura
  • Journal Title: PLOS ONE Volume: 未定
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] Importance of making (prediction) errors in L2 processing (2016)
  • Author(s): Arai, M.
  • Organizer: 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Bizkaia Aretoa, ビルバオ（スペイン）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Do word-based expectations influence structural priming? (2016)
  • Author(s): Arai, M., Chang, F., & Ishikawa, M.
  • Organizer: 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Bizkaia Aretoa, ビルバオ（スペイン）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Priming from a previously predicted but unseen verb (2016)
  • Author(s): Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Hirose, Y.
  • Organizer: 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Bizkaia Aretoa, ビルバオ（スペイン）
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Distance-independent factor for the processing asymmetry of Japanese subject/object relative clauses (2016)
  • Author(s): Arai, M. & Kahraman, B.
  • Organizer: 言語科学会第18回国際年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学駒場キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-04
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 眼球運動測定による注視時間データと反応時間としての読み時間データの分析 (2015)
  • Author(s): 新井学
  • Organizer: コーパス日本語学ワークショップ・サテライトシンポジウム「統計的言語研究の現在」
  • Place of Presentation: 国立国語研究所
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-04
• [Presentation] Processing Japanese sentences as a zero-sum game (2015)
  • Author(s): Uchida, S., Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T., & Hirose, Y.
  • Organizer: 言語科学会第17回国際年次大会（JSLS 2015）
  • Place of Presentation: 大分県別府市別府国際コンベンションセンター
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-18 – 2015-07-19
• [Presentation] Processing Japanese sentences as a zero-sum game (2015)
  • Author(s): Uchida. S., Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T., & Hirose, Y.
  • Organizer: The 17th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: 別府国際コンベンションセンター
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-18
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Prune early or prune late? Surprisal will cost you either way (2015)
  • Author(s): Uchida, S., Arai, M., Miyamoto, E. T., & Hirose, Y.
  • Organizer: Annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing
  • Place of Presentation: Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-19 – 2015-03-21