2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
On the interface between prosody and information structure in sentence comprehension
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23720196
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
FODOR Janet Dean ニューヨーク市立大学, 大学院言語学科, 教授
BRADLEY Dianne ニューヨーク市立大学, 大学院言語学科, 教授
FERNANDEZ Eva M. ニューヨーク市立大学, 大学院言語学科, 准教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 心理言語学 / 文処理 / 英語 / 日本語 / 否定 / 副詞節 / 国際研究協力 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present project aims to answer an important question in the psycholinguistic research: how do perceivers select an appropriate structure and interpretation of an utterance when more than one is available? What role does the prosody and context (information structure) play in the process of sentence comprehension? Further progress has been made in the present grant period on how the scope relation between negation and focused adverbials is processed in different languages (English, Japanese, and Spanish) with an aim of unveiling how universal and/or diverse between languages the role of prosody and information structure might be in the processing mechanism. Together with the findings reported in the L2 processing of Japanese learners of English, what has been accomplished in the present grant period will be an important asset for the next step of this extensive project.
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