Regionality of Asian languages and their universality in cognitive-semantic structures

2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 16520224
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: SATO Shigeru Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 教授 (40137592)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMASHITA Hiroshi Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 教授 (20230427) ; HORIE Kaori Tohoku University, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Professor, 高等教育開発推進センター, 教授 (70181526)
• Project Period (FY): 2004 – 2006
• Keywords: corpus / machine readability / morphological analysis / contrastive linguistics / cognitive linguistics / comparative lexicon / lexico-grammatical structure / cognitive semantic structure

Research Abstract

This study is an investigation into regionality of Asian languages and their universality in cognitive-semantic structures. Through analysis of lexical and grammatical structures of various Asian languages we capture regional similarities and differences and express it in a computational model of universal semantic network system. First, we stipulate from the data we accumulated what we have obtained in our previous studies in linguistic typology and comparative lexicology. Then we also construct a machine readable tagged corpus from electronic text of Japanese and Korean and written text of South Asian languages, which is utilized to systematically analyze lexical and grammatical structures and to point out existing systematic similarities among the languages in spite of the geographical and typological distance. In collaboration with brain scientists we also deal with fMRI data of grammatical phenomena as a biological foundation of regionality and universality of cognitive/semantic structures.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Effect of Syntactic Similarity on Cortical Activation during Second Language Processing : A Comparison of English and Japanese among Native Korean Trilinguals, : (2007) (2007)
  • Author(s): Hyeonjeong Jeong, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato, Ryuta Kawashima, et al.
  • Journal Title: Human Brain Mapping 28 Pages: 194-204
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Cortical mechanism of communicative speech production (2007)
  • Author(s): Yuko Sassa, Motoaki Sugiura, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato, Ryuta Kawashima
  • Journal Title: Neuroimage (in press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] An Anatomy of the Posture Verb 'Sit' in Marathi : A Cognitive-functional Account (2007)
  • Author(s): Pardeshi Prashant, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research(Rice, Sally and John Newman (eds.)) (in press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Effect of Syntactic Similarity on Cortical Activation during Second Language Processing : A (2007)
  • Author(s): Hyeonjeong, Jeong, Motoaki Sugiura, Yuko Sassa, Tomoki Haji, Nobuo Usui, Masato Taira, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato, Ryuta Kawashima
  • Journal Title: Comparison of English and Japanese among Native Korean Trilinguals, Human Brain Mapping 28 Pages: 194-204
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] A Cognitive-functional Account. Rice, Sally and John Newman (eds.) Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research. (2007)
  • Author(s): Pardeshi, Prashant, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato.An Anatomy of the Posture Verb 'Sit' in Marathi
  • Journal Title: Stanford : CSLI/University of Chicago Press (in press)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Syntactic Underspecification in a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: Proceedings, the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science Pages: 223-224
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Toward a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of PACLIC 20, the 20th Asia-Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation Pages: 31-37
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Overt Anaphoric Expressions, Empathy, and the Uchi-Soto Distinction. A Contrastive Perspective. (2006)
  • Author(s): Horie, Kaoru, Miya Shimura, Prashant Pardeshi
  • Journal Title: Emotive Communication in Japanese.(Amsterdam : John Benjamins)(Suzuki Satoko (ed.)) Pages: 173-190
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] Syntactic Underspecification in a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: Processing, Proceedings, the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science (ICCS2006) Pages: 223-224
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] Toward a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing, Proceedings of PACLIC (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: 20, the 20th Asia-Pacific Conference on Language, Information and Computation Pages: 31-37
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Journal Article] A Contrastive Perspective. Suzuki Satoko (ed.), Emotive Communication in Japanese (2006)
  • Author(s): Horie, Kaoru, Miya Shimura, Prashant Pardeshi.Overt Anaphoric Expressions, Empathy, the Uchi-Soto Distinction.
  • Journal Title: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pages: 173-190
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
• [Book] 対照言語学の新展開 (2004)
  • Author(s): 佐藤滋, 堀江薫, 中村渉(編)
  • Total Pages: 530
  • Publisher: ひつじ書房
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] Tokyo : Hituzi Shobo (2004)
  • Author(s): Shigeru Sato, Kaoru Horie, Wataru Nakamura (Editors)
  • Total Pages: 530
  • Publisher: New Horisons in Contrastive Linguistics (Taisho Gengogaku No Shintenkai)
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より