Material and presentation condition effects on sentence interpretation task performance

Methodological examinations of the competition experiment

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ID11656286
AuthorsYoshinori Sasaki (0000-0002-0816-4355, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume13
Issue1
Pages66-91
Publication date1997-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSecond language Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1191/026765897666381479
OpenAlexW2056483337
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Ten native English learners of Japanese, ten intermediate native English learners of Japanese and ten native Japanese speakers of English each were requested to report what they thought was the subject or actor of a series of English NVN word strings, in which case marking and lexical-semantics cues were systematically manipulated. These NVN strings were aurally presented first alone, and subsequently the same strings were presented for the second time together with noncanonical NNV and VNN strings. Similarly, their counterpart Japanese NNV strings were first presented alone, and secondly with noncanonical VNN and NVN strings. The results revealed that 1) a greater animacy effect (‘animacy noun as a subject’ bias) was detected when the sentence verb was see rather than eat(or each of their Japanese counterparts); 2) English accusative pronouns generally created greater case biases than nominative ones; and 3) native English speakers interpreting Japanese word strings responded differently under the two presentation conditions

Animacy · Cognitive psychology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Morpheme · Nominative case · Noun · Semantics (computer science · Sentence · Sentence processing · Subject (documents · Verb · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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