2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Neurocognitive investigation of syntactic processing on school-aged children: A cross-sectional study
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22242012
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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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 | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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Principal Investigator |
HAGIWARA Hiroko 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 教授 (20172835)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
DAN Ippeita 自治医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (20399380)
HOSHINO Takahiro 名古屋大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20390586)
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| Research Collaborator |
SUGIURA Lisa 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 特任准教授
HOMAE Fumitaka 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 准教授
HATA Masahiro 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 特任研究員
YARIMIZU Hidekazu 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 博士前期課程
MATSUBA Hiroko 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, リサーチアシスタント
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 統語処理 / 句構造規則 / 小学生の外国語学習 / 事象関連電位 / 近赤外分光法 |
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| Research Abstract |
By using simultaneous functional near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the stages of L2 syntactic processing in Japanese elementary school children who learn English at school. In the processing of sentences with word order violations, increased bilateral cortical activation was found in the high proficiency group with more left lateralization compared to the low proficiency group. The positive ERP component was also observed in the high proficiency group. These results suggest that children are gradually acquiring the ability to recognize L2 grammatical rules (phrase structure rules) by learning them in the foreign language context.
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