2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Influence of Proficiency Levels on L2 Sentence Processing
| Project/Area Number |
21520457
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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 | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKANO Yoko 関西学院大学, 人間福祉学部, 教授 (20380298)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 第二言語 / 文処理 / フィラー・ギャップ依存関係 / 関係節 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study investigated strategies for processing sentences that contained filler-gap dependencies and ambiguous relative-clause attachments. The participants were native speakers of English and Japanese-speaking late second-language (L2) learners of English with different proficiency levels. The study used behavioral and physiological research methods. Different results were found between native speakers of English and the L2 learners as well as between the learners at different proficiency levels. The results indicated a possibility that learners of different proficiency levels used different processing strategies.
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