Developing a Web-search engine for noun co-occurrence with verbs and its knowledge contribution to the reading listening comprehension

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13242
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Tamaoka Katsuo 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (70227263)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 早川 杏子 関西学院大学, 付置研究所, 講師 (80723543)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 共起頻度 / 動詞句 / 自他動詞 / Web検索 / 視線計測 / 脳波

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A series of investigations were carried out. (1) A list of co-occurrence frequencies for nouns, both subjects and objects, with verbs was created using 18-years of newspaper corpus. (2) Comparing the frequencies of 36 pairs of transitive and intransitive verbs, it was proved that there was no difference between transitive and intransitive verbs. (3) Using eye-tracking, it was demonstrated that the syntactic information of the L1 Chinese verb affects the L2 Japanese. (4) L1-to-L2 influence of syntactic information was shown by a verb understanding test. (5) EEG experiments demonstrated that language-selective activation occurs between L1 Chinese and L2 Japanese. (6) The effect of co-occurrence frequencies of verb phrases was demonstrated by eye-tracking. (7) A search engine for relational linguistic characteristics among Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese. (8) The new commonly-used 2,136 kanji were made available at a website.

Free Research Field

心理言語学