2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Temporal traits of sentence processing revealed by a psychometric paradigm
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20730472
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
植月 美希 The University of Tokyo, 保育学科, 専任講師 (70431781)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 言語 / 文処理 / ガーデンパス文 / 日本語 / 時間特性 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, temporal traits of sentence processing were examined. Previous studies showed that our comprehension of garden-path sentences was impaired when phrases were presented slowly. Then, factors were examined that decline our understanding of garden-path sentences using a psychophysical method. It was suggested that syntactic reanalysis processing declined our comprehension in longer duration. For temporal costs of sentence processing, it was shown that the speed of processing garden-path sentences was about one third as large as that of non-garden-path sentences. A temporal model of sentence processing was presented that processing and decay function decide our performance.
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