2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Can super-advanced Japanese learners process a Japanese sentence like native Japanese speakers? – Investigation by behavioral and brain-science experiments
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23320106
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese language education
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAMAOKA Katsuo 名古屋大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (70227263)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAOKA Yayoi 広島経済大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10351975)
TOKIMOTO Shingo 目白大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00291849)
SAKAI Hiromu 広島大学, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (50274030)
SUGIMURA Yasushi 名古屋大学, 大学院・国際言語文化研究科, 准教授 (60324373)
LIM Hyunjung 山口県立大学, 国際文科学部, 教授 (30412290)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 超級日本語学習者 / ERP |
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| Research Abstract |
Since super-advanced Japanese learners have achieved at the high level of Japanese proficiency, they are expected to be able to understand complex-structured sentences as in native Japanese speakers. Thus, using experiments of reaction-time paradigm and brain event-related potentials, the present study investigated how native Chinese speakers with the super-advanced Japanese proficiency process Japanese sentences. When syntactic information of verbs in sentences is shared by both languages, they could efficiently process them. However, when syntactic information of L1 Chinese differs from L2 Japanese, they process worse than information shared by two languages. Consequently, L1 syntactic information is automatically activated to interact with the processing of L2 Japanese sentences. The present study provided evidence that syntactic characteristics of L1 affect L2 sentence processing among Japanese learners even with the super-advanced level.
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Research Products
(38 results)
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[Journal Article] The multiple pronunciations of Japanese kanji : A masked priming investigation2013
Author(s)
Verdonschot, R. G ., La Heij, W., Tamaoka, K., Kiyama, S., You, W. P ., & Schiller, N. O
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Journal Title
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Volume: 66
Pages: 2023-2038
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[Journal Article] On the (non-)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension : A sentence processing study in Kaqchikel Mayan
Author(s)
Koizumi, M., Yasugi, Y ., Tamaoka, K., Kiyama, S., Kim, J., Esteban, J., Sian A., & Mátzar, L. P . O. G
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Journal Title
Language
Volume: (in press)
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[Presentation] Are pitch accent patterns necessary for lexical access by native Japanese speakers?2012
Author(s)
Tamaoka, K., Kiyama, S., Saito, N., Timmer , K., & Verdonschot, R
Place of Presentation
Riva del Garda, Italy
Year and Date
20120906-08
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