紀要論文

Sentence and Discourse Processing Strategies

eng

00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00006994

法政大学経済学部学会

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2010-03-15

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Reading comprehension processes are assumed to have ambiguous and complex relationships with human cognitive processes as modules or interactions. Therefore, interdisciplinary cognitive scinece-based research concerning theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and neurolinguistics, etc. is essential for exploring and elucidating reading comprehension processes. How are Japanese EFL learners inclined to process and comprehend sentences which are difficult to parse, syntactically ambiguous, or complex, such as garden path sentences? What sorts of principles and strategies are Japanese EFL learners apt to use at that time? What are these cognitive processes and mechanisms? How are these processes and mechanisms appropriately activated? In addition to that, if more discourse information is added to the syntactically ambiguous or complex sentence, can the prior or subsequent discourse contexts resolve the ambiguity of such sentences? The present study is an attempt to elucidate the cognitive mechanism, processes and strategies regarding sentence processing and the significant effects of prior or subsequent discourse contexts on resolution of ambiguity or complexity of garden path sentences. It principally aims at exploring and reconsidering the validity of the previous studies closely-related to the above-mentioned research fields. It mainly deals with significant problems with mechanisms and functions of the syntactic parser, immediate processing, delayed processing, serial processing, parallel-distributed processing, top-down processing, bottomup processing, syntax-based approach, constraint-based approach, referential approach, etc. as a prerequisite for further experimental research into the principal effects of different types of discourse contexts on resolution of ambiguity of garden path sentences.

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