日本人英語学習者による曖昧文の統語解析ストラテジー(心理言語学)

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In this paper the question of how advanced learners of English process syntactically ambiguous sentences is investigated. First, some recent L1 studies investigating human sentence processing were reviewed. Then, the results of two experiments which explored how Japanese learners of English process sentences were reported. The subjects were presented with syntactically ambiguous English sentences segmented into some parts on the computer screen. For Experiment I, sentences containing transitive verbs and intransitive verbs were presented. For Experiment II , sentences containing verbs which were predominantly used in direct-object versus clausal complement constructions were presented. The reading time for each segmentation was measured. The predictions made were (1) subjects process the sentences in a structure-based way (e.g. Minimal Attachment, Frazier & Rayner, 1982) or (2) they alternatively process the sentences based on lexical information. The results showed that the subjects' syntactic process was influenced by lexical information gained from the verb presented in the sentences (e.g. transitivity and post verbal structures) , and that this information was utilized in on-line processing.
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