The processing of syntactic and phonological information in spoken word recognition by English learners

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16794
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: Amano Shuichi 静岡大学, 大学教育センター, 特任助教 (70734177)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 音声単語認知 / 英語学習者 / 統語情報 / 音韻情報

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the role of syntactic and phonological information in spoken word recognition by English learners. The experiments using speeded grammatical classification tasks demonstrated that English learners who spoke Japanese as their first language were able to make lexical processing more efficient by utilizing syntactic and phonological information. However, this has so far been demonstrated only in word isolation.

Free Research Field

応用言語学