2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The processing of Japanese Kanji compound Words with homophones: an investigation using visual world eye-tracking paradigm
| Project/Area Number |
24530928
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OGAWA Taeko 東海学院大学, 人間関係学部, 教授 (30434517)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 単語認知 / 同音異義語 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the present study, we found evidence by psycholinguistic experiments for Japanese native speakers that phonology is activated automatically in processing of two-kanji compound words. Furthermore, we obtained evidence that semantic information of words sharing the activated phonology (i.e., homophones) is also activated, while the phonological activation decays rapidly in the processing of compound words. However, eye-tracking experiments for foreign students studying Japanese gave no evidence that searching for pictorial icon of a target word was affected by coexistence of icons of homophones, indicating that phonology is not automatically activated for persons with less lexical knowledge. Considering lack of precision of eye-tracker system, however, we need further investigation for the process of phonological activation.
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| Free Research Field |
認知心理学
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