Between Reading Time and Syntactic/Semantic Categories

• Asahara Masayuki

  National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

• Kato Sachi

  National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 読み時間と統語・意味分類
• ヨミ ジカン ト トウゴ ・ イミ ブンルイ

Abstract

 This article presents the contrastive analysis between reading time and syntactic/semantic categories in Japanese. We overlaid the reading time annotation BCCWJEyeTrack and a syntactic/semantic category information annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’. Statistical analysis based on a mixed linear model showed that verbal phrase tends to be shorter reading time than adjective,adverbial phrases or nominal phrases in the syntactic categories. Relation phrases are also shorter than other phrases in the semantic categories. The results suggest that the number of preceding phrases associated with the input facilitates the reading process,leading to the reduction in the gaze duration.

Journal

• Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society

  Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society 26 (2), 219-230, 2019-06-01

  Japanese Cognitive Science Society

Keywords

• readability
• thesaurus
• corpus
• reading time
• eye tracking

Details

• CRID: 1390282752376484608
• NII Article ID: 130007754385
• NII Book ID: AN1047304X
• DOI: 10.11225/jcss.26.219
• ISSN: 18815995
• ISSN: 13417924
• NDL BIB ID: 029785257
• Web Site: https://repository.ninjal.ac.jp/records/2553
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I029785257
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • NDL
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed