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2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

Propositional inferences driven by event semantics: Eye movements and EEG

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20H01263
Research InstitutionKonan University

Principal Investigator

中谷 健太郎  甲南大学, 文学部, 教授 (80388751)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) CHANG Franklin  神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60827343)
矢野 雅貴  東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (80794031)
小野 創  津田塾大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (90510561)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords心理言語学 / 事象意味論 / 語彙意味論 / 日本語
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

本研究は実時間の文の理解において事象意味論がどのように推論に基づく予測を発動するかを、視線計測と脳波計測を通して検証し、文処理メカニズムにおけ る意味理解の適切なモデルを立てることを目標とする。従来の言語理論は統語論、意味論、語用論を問わず、多かれ少なかれフレーゲの構成性の原理を基盤とし たボトム・アップの理論となっているが、実験的手法の発達により言語の実時間処理の実態があきらかになるにつれ、ヒトはボトム・アップ処理を必ずしも行っ ておらず、予測処理を中心としたインクリメンタル処理を行なっていることが明らかになっている。ではボトム・アップ=構成的な言語理論と非ボトム・アップ= 予測的な実時間言語理解の接点はどこにあるのだろうか。本研究では特に、動詞から来る事象意味論が、どのように予測的推論を発動し、非明示的項がどのよう に選好解釈を受けるかに焦点を当てる。
2023年度は、迷路課題という実験パラダイムを、本プロジェクトの主たる研究課題の検証に流用できるよう開発し導入することを試みた。迷路課題には、単語と非単語を選択することによって文を読み進めるものと、文法性に基づいて単語を選択することによって文を読み進めるものがあるが、本プロジェクトのための迷路課題では、不正解のない選択肢を設定することによって文の解釈の選好を測るものとして開発された。その結果、語彙意味論との相関は反応時間には見られなかったが、選好傾向については相関が見られた。また、エジンバラ大学のハナ・ローディ教授を招聘して語用論・意味論と文理解に関する国際ワークショップを開催した。

Research Progress Status

令和5年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

令和5年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2024 2023 Other

All Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 10 results,  Open Access: 10 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 5 results) Book (3 results) Remarks (1 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] A Comprehensive Examination of Prediction‐Based Error as a Mechanism for Syntactic Development: Evidence From Syntactic Priming2024

    • Author(s)
      Donnelly Seamus, Rowland Caroline, Chang Franklin, Kidd Evan
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Science

      Volume: 48 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1111/cogs.13431

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Influence of word-based prediction errors on syntactic priming.2024

    • Author(s)
      Arai, M., & Chang, F.
    • Journal Title

      Seijo University economic papers

      Volume: 243 Pages: 97-120

    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Chapter 3 Locality-based retrieval effects are dependent on dependency type: A case study of a negative polarity dependency in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Nakatani Kentaro
    • Journal Title

      Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

      Volume: 2 Pages: 31~54

    • DOI

      10.1515/9783110778939-003

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 語彙性判断課題における文脈情報の影響2023

    • Author(s)
      石原実樹, 中谷健太郎
    • Journal Title

      信学技報

      Volume: TL2023-19 Pages: 19-24

  • [Journal Article] An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Nambu Satoshi, Nakatani Kentaro
    • Journal Title

      Glossa: a journal of general linguistics

      Volume: 8 Pages: 1-30

    • DOI

      10.16995/glossa.9509

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Visual Heuristics for Verb Production: Testing a Deep‐Learning Model With Experiments in Japanese2023

    • Author(s)
      Chang Franklin, Tatsumi Tomoko, Hiranuma Yuna, Bannard Colin
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Science

      Volume: 47 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1111/cogs.13324

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Chapter 7 The adaptive nature of language comprehension2023

    • Author(s)
      Yano Masataka
    • Journal Title

      Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

      Volume: 2 Pages: 115~132

    • DOI

      10.1515/9783110778939-007

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese subject-marking particles wa, ga, and no2023

    • Author(s)
      Iwabuchi Toshiki, Nambu Satoshi, Nakatani Kentaro, Makuuchi Michiru
    • Journal Title

      Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

      Volume: 2 Pages: 163~182

    • DOI

      10.1515/9783110778939-009

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Chapter 5 Word orders, gestures, and a view of the world from OS languages2023

    • Author(s)
      Ono Hajime, Kubo Takuya, Sato Manami, Sakai Hiromu, Koizumi Masatoshi
    • Journal Title

      Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

      Volume: 1 Pages: 63~88

    • DOI

      10.1515/9783110778946-005

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Case and word order in children’s comprehension of wh-questions: A cross-linguistic study2023

    • Author(s)
      Otaki Koichi, Sato Manami, Ono Hajime, Sugisaki Koji, Yusa Noriaki, Koizumi Masatoshi
    • Journal Title

      Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives

      Volume: 1 Pages: 147~174

    • DOI

      10.1515/9783110778946-009

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Tense Alternation Generalization Revisited: A Reply to Akuzawa and Kubota.2023

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro Fujii, Hirotaka Ogawa, Hajime Ono
    • Journal Title

      Gengo Kenkyu

      Volume: 164 Pages: 111~123

    • DOI

      10.11435/gengo.164.0_111

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Re-examining Island Effects with NP-scrambling in Japanese: The Effect of Individual Variation.2023

    • Author(s)
      Shin Fukuda, Hajime Ono, Nozomi Tanaka, Jon Sprouse
    • Journal Title

      Japanese/Korean Linguistics

      Volume: 30 Pages: 3-27

    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Processing negative-sensitive elements in Japanese2024

    • Author(s)
      Kentaro Nakatani
    • Organizer
      Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Affectedness, awareness and re-mention in a maze2024

    • Author(s)
      Kentaro Nakatani, Shoko Shida
    • Organizer
      Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The role of resumptive pronouns in Tongan relative clause processing2024

    • Author(s)
      Hajime Ono
    • Organizer
      Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] My mouth is lonely: Processing of the emotions of inanimate objects2024

    • Author(s)
      Franklin Chang & Tomoko Tatsumi
    • Organizer
      Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Processing of null subjects in Japanese2024

    • Author(s)
      Masataka Yano
    • Organizer
      Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 2024
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Why do speakers use syntactically non-basic sentences? Evidence from pupillometry and functional near-infrared spectroscopy.2023

    • Author(s)
      Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Shimura, R., Funasaki, N. and Koizumi, M.
    • Organizer
      AMLaP Asia 2023
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Producing filler-gap dependencies in (in)felicitous contexts: Evidence from pupillometry and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)2023

    • Author(s)
      Yano, M., Niikuni, K., Shimura, R., Funasaki, N. and Koizumi, M.
    • Organizer
      MAPLL-TL 2023
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Modality-specific language processing of Spanish morphosyntactic and orthographic/phonological violations: an ERP study.2023

    • Author(s)
      Gallagher, D., Yano, M., and Ohta, S.
    • Organizer
      AMLaP Asia 2023
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] テシマウは本当に完了のアスペクト形式なのか2023

    • Author(s)
      中谷健太郎
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会 第167回大会
  • [Presentation] 語彙判断課題における文脈情報の影響2023

    • Author(s)
      石原実樹, 中谷健太郎
    • Organizer
      MAPLL-TL 2023
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Regular but not decomposed?: Influence of verb and form on Japanese verb morphology.2023

    • Author(s)
      Tsuchiya, Nana and Hajime Ono.
    • Organizer
      The 36th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] しゃべるヒト ことばの不思議を科学する2023

    • Author(s)
      菊澤律子・吉岡 乾・チャン・フランクリン・津村早紀、他
    • Total Pages
      326
    • Publisher
      文理閣
    • ISBN
      978-4-89259-924-8
  • [Book] Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives, Vol. 1: Cross-Linguistic Studies2023

    • Author(s)
      Masatoshi Koizumi, Hajime Ono, et al.
    • Total Pages
      292
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • ISBN
      9783110778809
  • [Book] Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives, Vol. 2: Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors2023

    • Author(s)
      Masatoshi Koizumi, Kentaro Nakatani, Masataka Yano, et al.
    • Total Pages
      314
    • Publisher
      De Gruyter Mouton
    • ISBN
      9783110778816
  • [Remarks] KCP International Workshop 2024

    • URL

      https://www.konan-u.ac.jp/hp/nakatani/kcp/iw/

  • [Funded Workshop] Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP) International Workshop 20242024

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Published: 2024-12-25  

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