日本語関係節の処理過程に談話機能が及ぼす影響 : コーパス調査と行動実験による検討

Effects of Discourse Function on the Processing of Relative Clauses in Japanese : Through the corpus research and behavioral experiment

Sato Atsushi

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第二部, 文化教育開発関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part. II, Arts and science education

Previous researches have shown that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses in many languages. Roland et al. (2007), however, claimed that the processing ease of subject relative clauses does not depend on structural complexity or linear distance, but it depends on the difference of discourse function between subject and object relative clauses. They confirmed the appropriate context reduced the processing load of object relative clauses. In this paper, we examined the validity of the discourse-function account (Roland et al. 2007, 2008) using a combination of a corpus and an experimental research. The results showed that the discourse-function account was not successful in explaining Japanese data. This suggests that the reduction of processing load in Roland et al. (2007) might be derived from the repetition of noun phrases rather than the relative clause processing itself.

Sentence processing

relative clause

corpus research

文処理

関係節

コーパス調査

Japanese [ 810 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5554

[NCID] AA11618725