Cognitive neuroscientific approaches to grammatical dependency and its integration processes: A case study of grammatical illusions

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24720195
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tsuda College (2014); Kinki University (2012-2013)
• Principal Investigator: ONO Hajime 津田塾大学, 学芸学部, 准教授 (90510561)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 文処理 / 文法的依存関係 / 距離の効果 / 作業記憶

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are various kinds of connections among elements (words and phrases) in a sentence, and we can comprehend sentences in an amazing pace because those “connections” are processed immediately. In the psycholinguistic literature, those connections among words and phrases are called grammatical dependencies. We examined the processing mechanism of grammatical dependencies through an observation called grammatical illusions where the processing mechanism failed the accurate processing. We investigated whether and how the length in the dependency influences the processing of the grammatical dependencies, and its relation to the grammatical illusion cases. Also, a few comparisons were made with respect to the type of dependencies and examined the strength of the effects.

Free Research Field

心理言語学