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Examination of Syntactic Constraints and Modeling of Verbal Working Memory by Experimental Study of Sentence Comprehension

Research Project

Project/Area Number14510629
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 言語学・音声学
Research InstitutionMejiro University

Principal Investigator

TOKIMOTO Shingo  Mejiro University, Department of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (00291849)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
Project Status Completed(Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost : ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004 : ¥500,000 (Direct Cost : ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003 : ¥500,000 (Direct Cost : ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002 : ¥900,000 (Direct Cost : ¥900,000)
Keywordssentence comprehension / psycholinguistics / parsing / working memory / reading span test / garden-path sentence / reanalysis / local ambiguity / ガーデンパス / 言語作動記憶 / 言語心理学 / 作動記憶 / 言語心理単 / 統語的制約
Research Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine the validity of syntactic constraints in real-time sentence processing and the relevance of verbal working memory constraints to the processing by psychological experiments on Japanese sentence comprehension.
Some experiments were carried out to examine the roles of case-markings and thematic constraint in Japanese sentence processing. The first series of experiments were intended to examine the processing of Japanese sentences including the words ambiguous between nouns and verbs by the self-paced non-cumulative moving-window reading paradigm. The results suggested that case-markings and thematic constraint were incrementally utilized to build thematic relations, and that the pragmatic plausibility of a sentence affected the disambiguation of the ambiguous words. On the basis of these results, we pointed out the typological problems of English parsing models in their application to Japanese, and we proposed a new model valid for Japanese sentence processing. We performed some experiments to suggest the validity of our model in many types of Japanese sentence.
We also discussed the individual differences of verbal working memory estimated by Japanese Reading Span Test and analyzed the correlation between the scores in the test and the speed and accuracy in sentence processing. Our experimental results indicated that readers with high scores in the test tended to comprehend the reanalysis sentences with great processing load more accurately than those with low scores, but the former spent longer time for their comprehension than the latter. In the standard literature of cognitive psychology, trade-off is often assumed for performance speed and accuracy. Our results suggests, however, that the priority of processing speed or accuracy is determined not arbitrarily but by the individual difference of verbal working memory constraints.

Report

(4results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(17results)

All 2004 Other

All Journal Article Publications

  • [Journal Article] Reanalysis Costs in Processing Japanese Sentences with Complex NP Structures and Homonyms : Individual Differences and Verbal Working Memory Constraints2004

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      日本認知科学会テクニカルレポート 53

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 言語の起源フォーラム:「非主流派」言語研究社の一知半解2004

    • Author(s)
      時本 真吾
    • Journal Title

      科学 74(10)

      Pages : 1160-1162

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Reanalysis Costs in Processing Japanese Sentences with Complex NP Structures and Homonyms : Individual Differences and Verbal Working Memory Constraints2004

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      Technical Report (Japanese Cognitive Science Society) No.50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 日本語不連続依存文処理における統語構造と言語作動記憶制約の関わり2004

    • Author(s)
      時本 真吾
    • Journal Title

      日本認知科学会第21回大会論文集 21

      Pages : 218-219

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 構造的曖昧文処理における名詞飽和性の影響2004

    • Author(s)
      植月美希, 時本真吾
    • Journal Title

      日本認知科学会第21回大会論文集 21

      Pages : 74-75

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Reanalysis Costs in Processing Japanese Sentences with Comples NP Structures and Homonyms : Individual Differences and Verbal Working Memory Constraints2004

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      日本認知科学会テクニカルレポート 53

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 言語の起源フォーラム:「非主流派」言語研究者の一知半解2004

    • Author(s)
      時本 真吾
    • Journal Title

      科学 74(10)

      Pages : 1160-1162

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Disambiguation of Homonyms in Real-Time Japanese Sentence Processing : Case-Markings and Thematic Constraint

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      Language and Speech (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Thematic Change and Reanalysis Difficulty in Head-Final Language

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto, Miki Uetsuki
    • Journal Title

      (under review)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Disambiguation of Homonyms in Real-Time Japanese Sentence Processing : Case- Markings and Thematic Constraint

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      Language and Speech (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Thematic Change and Reanalysis Difficulty in Head-Final Language.

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto, Miki Uetsuki
    • Journal Title

      (under review)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Disambiguation of Homonyms in Real-Time Japanese Sentence Processing : Case-Markings and Thematic Constraint

    • Author(s)
      Shingo Tokimoto
    • Journal Title

      Language and Speech (in press)

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 時本 真吾: "日本語複合名詞句構造処理における再解析コスト-言語作動記憶の個体差と統語的予測"日本認知科学会第20回大会論文集. 20. 198-199 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 植月美希, 時本真吾, 佐藤隆夫: "再解析の有無に伴う日本語文処理コストの構文間比較"日本心理学会第67回大会発表論文集. 67. 896 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 時本 真吾: "語彙的暖昧性を伴う日本語文の処理過程における統語的制約と作動記憶の機能について"日本認知科学会第19回大会論文集. 19. 38-39 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 時本 真吾: "日本語文処理過程における再解析コストと作動記憶の機能について-self-paced reading法を用いて"日本心理学会第66回大会発表論文集. 66. 809 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 時本楠緒子, 時本真吾: "日本語の文理解に及ぼす局所的曖昧性の効果について-質問紙法を用いて-"日本心理学会第66回大会発表論文集. 66. 816 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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