Producing two different languages: evidence from structural priming

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720214
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Showa University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Mikihiro 昭和大学, 富士吉田教育部, 講師 (10555072)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 言語学 / 心理言語学 / 文産出 / バイリンガル / 認知科学 / 外国語教育

Research Abstract

This study investigated into the production of syntactic structure in head-final(Japanese) and head-initial (English) languages. Focusing on the phenomenon called ‘structural priming’, the current study revealed that speakers use the similar process of production regardless of languages. This supports the possibility of ‘the shared-syntax account’.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Conceptual influences on word order and voice in sentence production: Evidence from Japanese (2011)
  • Author(s): Tanaka, M, Branigan, H, Pickering, M
  • Journal Title: Journal of Memory and Language Volume: 65 Pages: 318-330
• [Journal Article] Animacy Effects on Word Order in VOS Language : Evidence from a Picture Description Task in Kaqchikel. (2011)
  • Author(s): Kubo, T. Ono, H, Tanaka, M, Koizumi, M, Sakai, H
  • Journal Title: Human Language Processing and Learning 2011
• [Presentation] 'From ANOVA to LME' -an introduction to statistical analysis in psycholinguistics (2012)
  • Author(s): Tanaka, M
  • Organizer: Talk presented at the KCP conference, Kwansai Gakuin University
  • Place of Presentation: Osaka, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20120700
• [Presentation] What is structural priming? (2011)
  • Author(s): Tanaka, M
  • Organizer: Talk presented at the KCP conference, Kwansai Gakuin University
  • Place of Presentation: Osaka, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20111100
• [Presentation] Sentence production and structural priming: A introductory review (2011)
  • Author(s): Tanaka, M
  • Organizer: Talk presented at the Cognitive NeuroPsychology Society
  • Place of Presentation: Nagoya, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20110800
• [Presentation] Animacy Effects on Word Order in VOS Language : Evidence from a Picture Description Task in Kaqchikel (2011)
  • Author(s): Kubo, T. Ono, H, Tanaka, M, Koizumi, M, Sakai, H.
  • Organizer: Talk presented at Human Language Processing and Learning 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Hiroshima University
  • Year and Date: 20110800
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