NSF Young Investigator Award

NSF青年研究员奖

• 批准号: 9357983
• 负责人: Reiko Mazuka
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-01 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9357983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Young; Investigator; Award

9357983 MAZUKA This award provides support to Dr. Reiko Mazuka under the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Awards program. The objective of this program is to recognize outstanding young faculty in science and engineering, to enhance the academic career of recent PhD recipients by providing flexible support for research and educational activities, and to foster contact and cooperation between academia, industry, and institutions that support research and education. Dr. Mazuka has already made significant research contributions to the field of psycholinguistics, and she has the potential to become a leader in academic research and education. Over the last few years, Dr. Mazuka's cross-linguistic investigation of natural language processing has led to the conclusion that there are significant differences between the ways Japanese- and English-speaking children process language. This conclusion has critically challenged the hypothesis that mechanisms of natural language processing are universal. This award will allow the investigator to pursue her research interests in cross- linguistic comparisons of native Japanese and native English speakers. Dr. Mazuka will examine how Japanese speakers manage a high degree of indeterminacy early in a sentence, through a series of psycholinguistic experiments using methods of eye movement monitoring, self-paced reading, and on-line grammaticality judgments. Since the analysis of temporal ambiguity has critically shaped research in language processing, she will pay particular attention to the fact that English is a Right-Branching, Head- Initial language and Japanese is a Left-Branching, Head-Final language. The first year of the project will be conducted in Japan at the University of Tokyo and NTT Basic Research Labs. This research holds promise of forming a new interdisciplinary research paradigm in the theory of language-cognition relations and first language acquisition. In addition, the results of t he research will provide critical psycholinguistic data on Japanese sentence processing. ***

9357983 MAZUKA该奖项根据美国国家科学基金会的青年研究者奖计划为Reiko Mazuka博士提供支持。 该计划的目标是表彰科学和工程领域的优秀青年教师，通过为研究和教育活动提供灵活的支持来提高最近博士学位获得者的学术生涯，并促进学术界，工业界和支持研究和教育的机构之间的联系与合作。 马祖卡博士已经在心理语言学领域做出了重大的研究贡献，她有潜力成为学术研究和教育的领导者。 在过去的几年里，马祖卡博士对自然语言处理的跨语言研究得出的结论是，日语和英语儿童处理语言的方式存在显着差异。 这一结论严重挑战了自然语言处理机制是普遍存在的假设。 该奖项将允许研究者继续她的研究兴趣，在跨语言比较母语日语和母语英语的人。 马祖卡博士将通过一系列心理语言学实验，使用眼动监测、自定进度阅读和在线语法判断的方法，研究日语使用者如何在句子的早期处理高度的不确定性。 由于对时间歧义的分析对语言处理的研究产生了重要影响，她将特别注意英语是右分支，头首语言和日语是左分支，头尾语言的事实。 该项目的第一年将在日本东京大学和NTT基础研究实验室进行。 本研究有望在语言-认知关系理论和第一语言习得理论中形成一种新的跨学科研究范式。 此外，本研究的结果将为日语句子加工提供重要的心理语言学数据。 ***