Verb Subcategorization Information During Sentence Comprehension by Japanese EFL Learners : Evidence From Self-Paced Sentence Anomaly Task

• NAGAI Chieko

  Graduate School, Kobe University

• YABUUCHI Satoshi

  Kyoto Seika University

• HASHIMOTO Ken-ichi

  Kyoto University of Foreign Studies

• SUGAI Kosuke

  Kinki University

• YOKOKAWA Hirokazu

  Kobe University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 日本人英語学習者の文理解プロセスにおける動詞の下位範疇化情報の利用 : 意味性判断課題を用いた心理言語学実験による検討

Abstract

This study investigated the use of verb subcategorization information during sentence comprehension by Japanese EFL learners, using a self-paced reading task with the embedded anomaly technique. In order to observe when the syntactic structure was determined, filler-gap sentences were constructed as stimuli. Four types of verbs were used: simple transitive verbs, dative verbs, infinitive complement verbs and intransitive preference verbs. The plausibility of the direct object of the embedded verb was also manipulated. The results demonstrate that the high proficiency learners utilize verb subcategorization information of simple transitive verb; however they do not use it automatically as natives. The results also indicate that they cannot utilize that of other types of verbs. The low proficiency learners show the difficulty in processing the sentences with long-distance dependencies.

Journal

• ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan

  ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan 21 (0), 61-70, 2010

  The Japan Society of English Language Education

Details

• CRID: 1390001205823695104
• NII Article ID: 110008512397
• DOI: 10.20581/arele.21.0_61
• ISSN: 24320412
• ISSN: 13448560
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed