| Project/Area Number |
09207106
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTSU Yukio Keio University, Research Institute of Language and Culture, Professor, 言語文化研究所, 教授 (80100410)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHIGAUTI Taisuke Kobe Syoin Women College, Department of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40164545)
UCHIDA Nobuko Ocyanomizu Women University, Department of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (70017630)
IMANISHI Noriko Tokyo University, Department of Literature, Professor, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (70111739)
HIBIYA Junko Keio University, International Center, Assistant Professor, 国際センター, 助教授 (70199016)
IMAIZUMI Satoshi Tokyo University, Department of Medicine. Assistant Professor, 大学院・医学系研究科, 助教授 (80122018)
伊藤 友彦 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 助教授 (40159893)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥84,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥84,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥19,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥19,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥24,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥24,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥20,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥20,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥20,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥20,900,000)
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| Keywords | Language Acquisition / Development of Syntax / Development of Discourse / Development of Speech / Interface / Language Processing / Bubbling / Maturation |
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| Research Abstract |
The Language Development Group aimed at constructing a theory of language development, and conducted empirical and theoretical research on various aspects of language including phonology, lexicon, syntax, and semantics. We focused on exploring the biological (innate) foundations of language development and the role of experience in the process of language development as well as the interaction between the biological foundations and experience.
We investigated acquisition processes of various languages with particular emphasis on Japanese and English. As for methodology, some were experimental while others were based on the analysis of children's utterance data.
We have found that language-specific biological foundations are deeply involved in the process of language acquisition, and that the biological foundations contain parameters whose values are to be fixed against experience. On the other hand, in such areas as word meaning, it was suggested that the internal biases can be results of learning rather than given biologically, which will be a topic of our future research.
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