2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Research on Coherence and Interference in Clause Structures
| Project/Area Number |
19320071
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Konan University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKASHIMA Nobuo Konan University, 文学部, 教授 (20155708)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ARIMURA Kaneaki 甲南大学, 文学部・英語英米文学科, 教授 (70068146)
FUKUSHIMA Akitoshi 甲南大学, 文学部・英語英米文学科, 教授 (20199201)
NAKATANI Kentaro 甲南大学, 文学部・英語英米文学科, 教授 (80388751)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 英語 / 言語学 / 音声学 / 文理解 / 語用論 |
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| Research Abstract |
A sentence in general is made of structurally coherent relationships between its constituents ; however, in many cases, some other constituents interfere with such a coherent relationship. We have investigated how a coherence is recovered from an interference, from four theoretical perspectives : [1] syntax, [2] semantico-pragmatics, [3] phonetics and [4] psycholinguistics. Our investigation revealed that interfering phrases in a coherent relationship function like quotations and that interpretation of such a structure involves processes of pausing the on-going structural analysis and reconstructing it when the interference is resolved.
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