2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Production of Metonymy: A Psycholinguistic study
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26370520
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Konan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 言語産出 / 換喩 / プライミング / バイリンガル |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study reports on an experiment that investigated how we construct the metonymic expressions (e.g,Read Dickens) in Japanese sentence production. In a recall-based sentence production task (Ferreira, 2003), speakers were presented with a Filler sentence and then the Prime sentence, and were asked to produce the Prime, then speakers were presented with the Target sentence and then a Filler sentence, and were prompted to produce the Target. Results showed that speakers were more likely to recall the metonymic expressions correctly after recalling the metonymic expressions than after recalling the non-metonymic and literal expressions as the Primes. The difference in the proportions of the non-metonymic and literal expressions was not statistically significant. These results displayed a tendency for speakers to repeat the metonymic expressions, suggesting that speakers can access the metonymic expression directly.
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| Free Research Field |
心理言語学
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