Investigation reveals how contextual constraints impact English inflectional word recognition in Japanese listeners, suggesting a focus on meaning over structure.
In this paper, an investigation was carried out into the effects of contextual constraints in the recognition of inflectional words in English.A hypothesis was proposed that low-intermediate Japanese listeners of English might direct considerable attention to semantic constraints, which are primarily concerned with the recognition of the stem as opposed to the suffixes of a word which syntactic constraints affect, in the recognition of inflectional words in English.This hypothesis has been confirmed by the experiment.
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中村 et al. (1998) studied this question.
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