2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Measuring memory load duringthe processing of Japanese sentences
| Project/Area Number |
19520326
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAMOTO Edson・T University of Tsukuba, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (60335479)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 心理言語学 / 文理解 / 語順 |
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| Research Abstract |
When reading a sentence, it is harder to associate words that are far apart than words that are close to each other. There are different ways of measuring distance within sentences and factors such as number of words and discourse complexity are known to be involved. However, there has been little experimental evidence on the role of phonological weight. In this project, reading times to simple transitive sentences were compared to provide evidence that amount of phonological information needs to be taken into consideration when measuring distance between words.
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