What makes incremental processing possible in Japanese: predictive, integrative, selective use of various sources of information

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320072
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: HIROSE Yuki 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50322095)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IGARASHI Yosuke 一橋大学, 社会学研究科, 准教授 (00549008) ; SAKAI Hiromu 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (50274030) ; MIYAMOTO T. Edson 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (60335479) ; ONO Hajime 津田塾大学, 学芸学部, 准教授 (90510561)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 日本語 / 主要部後置 / 予測的処理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project investigated in what way (not "whether") real-time incremental processing is possible in head final languages such as Japanese. We conducted several experiments employing various psycholinguistic method to show how information in the linguistic domain (such as selectional restrictions such as prosody) and extra-linguistic domain (such as world knowledge and referential context) play a role in predicting the upcoming structure. In the document to follow, we report selected experiments among several more.

Free Research Field

心理言語学