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L2 Acquisition of Null Arguments in Japanese

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15H06418
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionNotre Dame Seishin University

Principal Investigator

Kizu Mika  ノートルダム清心女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (00759037)

Research Collaborator YAMADA Kazumi  
Project Period (FY) 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords空主語 / 第二言語習得 / 日本語教育 / カートグラフィー
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted experiments for null subjects in L2 Japanese. The experiments consisted of two tasks: one was to identify the referent of the subject, and the other was to judge the acceptability of overt versus null subjects in context. The results for Chinese, English, and Korean advanced learners of L2 Japanese (n=90) were compared to those of Japanese native speakers (n=30). Interestingly, there is a significant difference for the identification task between those in Chinese/English groups and in the control group. However, the results for the acceptability judgment task do not display the expected dichotomy but require more language specific accounts depending on the sentence types. These findings show that their L1 knowledge impinges on the Chinese and English learners’ performance, which supports Miyazawa’s (2017) typology on feature agreement. The acceptability task results can be explained partly from the viewpoint of the effect of micro-parameters (Baker 2008).

Report

(3 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2017 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The effect of instruction on null subjects: a case of L2 Japanese learners2017

    • Author(s)
      Mika Kizu, Kazumi Yamada
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of PacSLRF 2016

      Volume: 1 Pages: 115-120

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] The effect of instruction on null subjects: a case of L2 Japanese learners2016

    • Author(s)
      Mika Kizu, Kazumi Yamada
    • Organizer
      Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-09
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] What is the role of linguistic theory in second language teaching?2016

    • Author(s)
      Mika Kizu
    • Organizer
      Teaching and Learning Japanese at SOAS - Past, Present, Future
    • Place of Presentation
      ロンドン大学SOAS
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-02
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2015-08-26   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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