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2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Examination of cross-modal priming effect in the phoneme level

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610085
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 実験系心理学
Research InstitutionRIKKYO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

TSUZUKI Takashi  RIKKYO UNIV., COLLEGE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS, PROFESSOR, 社会学部, 教授 (70207421)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UCHIDA Teruhisa  National Center for Univ.Entrance Examinations, Research Division, ASSISTANT, 研究開発部, 助手 (10280538)
HISANO Masaki  THE UNIV.OF ELECTRO-COMMUNICATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION, LECTURER, 人間コミュニケーション学科, 助教授 (20282907)
INOUE Tatsuki  RIKKYO UNIV., COLLEGE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS, ASSISTANT, 社会学部, 助手 (60298065)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
Keywordssemantic priming / naming / phoneme / connectionist model / ambiguity / cross-modal priming / naming latency
Research Abstract

This research demonstrates syntactic effects in resolving lexical ambiguity in Japanese, an S-O-V language. In particular, the effect of a postpositional particle on the semantic access of sentence-final ambiguous verbs in two kinds of sentences, (a) S-ga-V sentences (subject, subjective postpositional particle, and ambiguous verb) and (b) O-wo-V sentences (object, objective postpositional particle, and ambiguous verb), will be demonstrated. In this research, The postpositional particles are designed to disambiguate the verbs' meanings as (a) S-ga-Vi. (intransitive verb) or (b) O-wo-Vt. (transitive verb).
A cross-modal priming method was used in which a target noun was visually presented by Kanji characters one-syllable before the end, or immediately after the end, of a sentence-final verb presented auditorily. One target noun was related to both the prime verb's meaning and the postpositional particle used (context-dependent), while another target noun was related to only the prime verb's meaning, but it was unrelated to the postpositional particle used (context-independent), and a third target was unrelated to both of the verb's and the particle's meaning. For this analysis, we hand coded the data of naming latencies based on digital spectrograms of subjects' voices, because the voice key measure has been considered unsuitable to measure naming latency accurately.
This research has been pursued with reference to the constraint-based lexicalist approach. The parallel distributed processing (PDP) models (connectionist models) of disambiguation are well suited to implement this constraint-based lexicalist view that human natural language understanding involves constraint-satisfaction mechanisms. We performed a computer simulation of this experiment using our PDP model. Consistent with experimental data, the PDP model can successfully simulate the effect of context-dependent and context-independent frequencies of ambiguous verbs in the time-course of activation.

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All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 久野雅樹: "新聞の用字の面による変動と時系列変動"自然言語処理. 7. 45-61 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 都築誉史: "音読データの音素レベルにおける分析-認知心理学における音読潜時測定の諸問題-"応用社会学研究(立教大学社会学部紀要). 41. 51-57 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 都築誉史: "単語音読に関する認知心理学的モデルの動向-二重ルート・モデル,アナロジー・モデル,並列分散処理モデル-"立教大学心理学研究(立教大学文学部心理学科紀要). 42. 21-30 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 都築誉史: "語彙的多義性の処理に関する並列分散処理モデル-文脈と共に提示された多義語の認知に関する実験データの理論的統合-"認知科学. 6. 91-104 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 都築誉史: "高次認知過程に関するコネクショニスト・モデルの動向"心理学研究. 72(印刷中). (2001)

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  • [Publications] 内田照久: "音声の発話速度の制御がピッチ感および話者の性格印象に与える影響"日本音響学会誌. 56. 396-405 (2000)

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  • [Publications] 海保博之: "認知研究の技法"福村出版. 206 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 守一雄: "コネクショニスト・モデルと心理学"北大路書房(印刷中). 223 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Hisano, Masaki: "Page-type and time-series variations of newspaper's character occurrence rate"Journal of Natural Language Processing. 7. 45-61 (2000)

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  • [Publications] Tsuzuki, Takashi: "Analysis of naming data in phoneme level : Problems of measuring naming latencies in cognitive psychology"The Journal of Applied Sociology. 41. 51-57 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tsuzuki, Takashi: "Overview of models on word pronunciation : Dual-route models, analogy models, and parallel distributed processing models"Rikkyo Psychologucal Research. 42. 21-30 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tsuzuki, Takashi: "A parallel distributed processing model of lexical ambiguity resolution : The theoretical integration of empirical data for processing ambiguous Japanese words presented with context"Cognitive Studies. 6. 91-104 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Tsuzuki, Takashi: "Connectionist modeling of hogher-level cognitive Processes"The Japanese Journal of Psychology. 72 (in press). (2001)

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  • [Publications] Uchida, Teruhisa: "Effects of the speech rate conversion on the impressions of pitch and the images of speakers' personality"The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan. 56. 396-405 (2000)

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