| Presentation | 2015-12-12 Do Japanese EFL learners make use of animacy information when parsing an object relative clause? Ayako Hirano, Hirokazu Yokokawa, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | This study investigated the use of animacy information when intermediate-level Japanese EFL learners parse a spoken and written object relative clause (ORC) sentence. 20 stimuli and 65 fillers were made for Experiment 1 in which 57 participants listened to a sentence and then answered a comprehension question. The stimuli’s critical manipulation involved the matrix noun phrase (NP), animate or inanimate. Experiment 2 aimed to examine whether 24 Japanese EFL learners make use of animacy information when processing the same stimuli as Experiment 1 in the experimenter-paced reading task. The results revealed that Japanese EFL learners make use of animacy information when parsing a spoken ORC sentence and a written ORC sentence within a set time. In addition, the upper-level participants more accurately answered comprehension questions in Experiment 1. These results indicate that Japanese EFL learners perform agent or theme role assignment to NPs and syntactic processing simultaneously. Furthermore, the higher the proficiency is, the more accurate the processing is. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | animacy / object relative clause / listening / lexicon / sentence processing |
| Paper # | TL2015-44 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-12-05 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2015/12/12(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Room 303/304/305, Building #8, Waseda University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Theme 1: Language and Learning, Theme 2: Co-creation in a place， Emergence of meaning， Theme 3: Language and Law |
| Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Do Japanese EFL learners make use of animacy information when parsing an object relative clause? |
| Sub Title (in English) | A comparison between auditory and visual presentation |
| Keyword(1) | animacy |
| Keyword(2) | object relative clause |
| Keyword(3) | listening |
| Keyword(4) | lexicon |
| Keyword(5) | sentence processing |
| 1st Author's Name | Ayako Hirano |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Kobe University(Kobe Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hirokazu Yokokawa |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kobe University(Kobe Univ.) |
| Date | 2015-12-12 |
| Paper # | TL2015-44 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-361 |
| Page | pp.pp.23-28(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-12-05 (TL) |