2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Corpus of Kansai Vernacular Japanese
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17K02761
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HEFFERNAN K 関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (60580595)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Japanese / memory / morphology |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I published three peer-reviewed journal articles on how speakers store and process the Japanese language in memory. These articles contribute to the ongoing debate about the innate nature of language. Two of the articles examine the emergence of new irregular grammatical patterns in vernacular Japanese, and contributes to our knowledge of irregular grammar, such as the irregular verbs of English. The third article examines patterns in case particle omission, with an emphasis on how language processing occurs in memory.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have completed the interviews, transcriptions, and parsing for 112 out of 136 interviews. I am on schedule to complete the corpus by the end of 2019. I have not made an progress on building a web site in order to provide the data to other researchers. I intend to do that work in 2019.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
A common theme to all three of my articles is frequency. My next goal is A common theme to all three of my articles is frequency. My next goal is exapand this work by looking at the stative tense verbs (e.g., 食べてた) in natural conversation. I have observed that when speakers use the stative inflection in natural conversation, they often omit markers of finite tense from the utterance (e.g., そうなんですかって言って。). I hypothesize that frequency will play an important role in predicting whether an utterance will omit the finite tense marker.
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| Causes of Carryover |
直接経費は研究作業の謝金に使用した。未使用額については、次年度の謝金に使用する予定である。
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Research Products
(6 results)
