2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A research on the effect of Japanese Complex structures on sentence readablity
| Project/Area Number |
25370522
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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Principal Investigator |
Oshima Motoo 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (30213705)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 日本語 / 文法 / 連体修飾節 / 接続節 / 翻訳 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aims to give clear syntactic criteria to sentence readability, which has been mentioned only intuitively in previous researches. The applicant collected complex sentence structures including adnominal clauses and clauses lead by subordinate conjunctions from several Japanese translations of The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, and studied how these structures effect sentence readability.
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| Free Research Field |
日本語学
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