| Project/Area Number |
16520324
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese language education
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TAMAOKA Katsuo Hiroshima University, International Student Center, Professor, 留学生センター, 教授 (70227263)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAKAI Hiromu Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Education, Associate professor, 大学院・教育学研究科, 助教授 (50274030)
MATSUSHITA Tatsuhiko Obirin University, Associate professor, 国際教育センター, 助教授 (00255259)
KURIBAYASHI Yuu Okayama University, Graduate School of Literature, Associate professor, 文学部, 助教授 (30243447)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
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| Keywords | sentence processing / Second language acquisition / case particles / grammatical functions / thematic roles / Chinese / Turkish / Korean |
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| Research Abstract |
In the quest for a universal cognitive sentence mechanism for L1 (the first language) and L2 (the second language) syntactic processing, Tamaoka, Sakai, Kawahara, Miyaoka, Lim and Koizumi (2005) have investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs and ditransitive verbs alike. Passive sentences also indicated that canonical order as defined by case particles, not thematic roles, was more quickly and accurately identified than scrambled order. Potential sentences and causative sentences further indicated that the processing of scrambled sentences based on grammatical functions, but not on case particles, required longer reaction times and resulted in higher error rates than canonical sentences. Consequently, neither thematic roles nor case particles can provide fully-satisfactory information for canonical phrase order, and only grammatical functions offer satisfactory information for all types of sentences. This study (Tamaoka et al., 2005) was a stepping stone to further investigation into L1 and L2 sentence processing, expanded to various languages with scrambling. Both the Turkish and Korean languages (manuscript in preparation) showed scrambling effects similar to those found in the Japanese language. A series of experiments using the Turkish language revealed a similar tendency found in the Japanese language. A study on the scrambling paradigm was conducted to native Chinese and Korean speakers learning Japanese which revealed scrambling effects in the L2 condition, but they displayed difficulties in potential sentences which conflict information between case particles and grammatical functions.
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