2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Relation of Working Memory Capacity with Processing of Filler-Gap Sentences
| Project/Area Number |
26770197
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | ワーキングメモリ / リーディングスパンテスト / 統語処理 / 語彙アクセス / フィラーギャップ文 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The study aimed to investigate (1) whether the degree of cognitive burden on lexical access, which was manipulated by word familiarity of sentence-final words in reading span tests, influences the efficiency of language comprehension (i.e., syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic) and whether the degree of influence between lexical access and language comprehension efficiency is different from the types of sentences and participants’ proficiency, and (2) how the length of the distance between filler and gap induce L2 working memory (WM) cost. The main results show that (1) the ease of lexical access could facilitate all types of language comprehension and the high proficiency group performed better than the low proficiency group irrespective of language processing types, and (2) the Japanese EFL learners with low WM capacity show the difficulty in processing the sentences with long-distance dependencies.
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| Free Research Field |
心理言語学
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