Examination of Domain-Specificity of Syntactic Knowledge by Experimental Study of Japanese Complex Sentences with Discontinuous Dependency

句法和语音知识通常被认为是领域特定的。例如，英语中的主谓一致独立于主语的语音属性。然而，在言语中，韵律往往有助于句子中成分之间的依存关系的建立，而无声阅读中的内隐韵律影响解释偏好。此外，句法结构可以决定音系规则在日语和英语复合名词中的应用，一些语言学理论假设音系规则和句法规则之间存在相互作用。本研究通过对日语非连续依存关系的心理实验，考察了句法知识的领域特异性，并在2005学年对日语母语者使用含有非连续依存关系的日语复句的语音进行了记录，总结出日语非连续依存关系特有的韵律特征。在2006学年，我们进行了一些实验，以准确地呈现日语不连续句子的日语母语与相关的韵律特征操纵。实验结果表明，韵律特征对语法判断的影响是有限的。

Syntactic and phonological knowledge are generally assumed to be domain-specific. The subject-verb agreement in English, for example, is independent from the phonological property of a subject. In speech, however, prosody often facilitates the building of dependency relations between elements in a sentence, and implicit prosody in silent reading affects the interpretational preference. Further, syntactic structure can determine the application of phonological rule in compound nouns in Japanese and English, and some linguistic theories assume interaction between phonological and syntactic rules. This study examines the domain-specificity of syntactic knowledge by psychological experiments on Japanese discontinuous dependency.In 2005 academic year, we recorded the speech of Japanese complex sentences involving discontinuous dependency by Japanese native speakers, and generalized the prosodic property peculiar to Japanese discontinuous dependency. In 2006 academic year, we performed some experiments to auditorily present Japanese discontinuous sentences to Japanese native speakers with relevant prosodic features manipulated. The experimental results indicated that the effect of prosodic property was restricted as far as grammatical judgment were concerned.