A Connectionist Study of Second Language Acquisition: Verified by Two Different Simulators

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580105
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIZAKI Takashi 山形大学, 大学院教育実践研究科, 准教授 (20323181)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 第二言語習得理論 / コネクショニズム / シミュレーション / バイリンガル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is aimed at demonstrating a way of connectionist simulation for SLA studies. For the SLA simulation, two languages like Japanese and English need to be converted into binary signals based on the same common format. Therefore, as one of the main purposes of this study, a common format was proposed. Another main purpose of this study is utilizing two different computer simulators to conduct the SLA simulation. Verified by these simulators, some aspects which the conventional simulator had overlooked were revealed in this study.

Free Research Field

第二言語習得理論