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Presentation 2016-01-30 11:00
The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners -- Evidence from a lexical decision task --
Keiko Sakakibara, Hirokazu Yokokawa (Kobe Univ.) TL2015-61
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Successful text comprehension requires the coordinated operation of several component processes. As various cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension are dependent on the same limited processing resources, a delay or failure of processing at one level may undermine text comprehension as a whole. In order to examine whether Japanese EFL learners' increased demands of syntactic processing interfere with their higher-level text comprehension, texts containing two critical sentences that warrant a causal inference were developed. The second sentence of each critical sentence pair always contains either a temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clause or an unambiguous relative clause. The results of a lexical decision task conducted immediately after the relative clause sentences demonstrated that response time to inference probe word was significantly slower in the ambiguous than in the unambiguous condition. The data of the present study suggests that successful text comprehension depends on efficient syntactic processing.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) syntactic processing / reduced relative clause / bridging inference / text comprehension / working memory capacity / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 441, TL2015-61, pp. 35-40, Jan. 2016.
Paper # TL2015-61 
Date of Issue 2016-01-22 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2016-01-29 - 2016-01-30 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Meiji University (Academy Common) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Art Thinking / Design Thinking, Thought and Language, etc. 
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Conference Code 2016-01-TL 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners 
Sub Title (in English) Evidence from a lexical decision task 
Keyword(1) syntactic processing  
Keyword(2) reduced relative clause  
Keyword(3) bridging inference  
Keyword(4) text comprehension  
Keyword(5) working memory capacity  
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1st Author's Name Keiko Sakakibara  
1st Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hirokazu Yokokawa  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
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Date Time 2016-01-30 11:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2015-61 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.441 
Page pp.35-40 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2016-01-22 (TL) 

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