2004 年 23 巻 1 号 p. 103-104
The influences of phonology at the pitch accent level and misprint location in a sentence on Japanese proofreading were investigated. The participants silently read short Japanese sentences and detected misprints in them. We found that more misprint detection errors were made when the misprint was the same pitch-accent homophone as that of a word that would fit the sentence meaning, than when the misprint was a different pitch-accent homophone or a non-homophone. This result suggests that phonological information at the pitch-accent level is used in Japanese proofreading. The interaction of the phonology and the misprint location had an influence on misprint detection speed. This indicates that the contextual information of a sentence is essential for misprint detection, and the homophony and the location of the misprint influences the speed of context comprehension.