Acquisition of Japanese verbal compounding: Theoretical and experimental studies
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15K02510
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
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Principal Investigator |
Isobe Miwa 東京藝術大学, 言語・音声トレーニングセンター, 准教授 (00449018)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
岡部 玲子 日本大学, 法学部, 准教授 (60512358)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Keywords | 言語獲得 / 複合動詞 / 動詞複合 / 語彙的複合動詞 / 名詞複合 / 日本語 / 統語的複合動詞 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is widely known that verbal compounds (hereafter “V-V compounds”) which consist of two verbs but function in the same way as single verbs are available in some East Asian languages. Among them, Japanese allows the richest variety of V-V compounds, and many theoretical studies have shown that V-V compounds in Japanese can be divided into two types: lexical and syntactic V-V compounds.
The aim of this research project was to elucidate how Japanese-speaking children acquire these two types of V-V compounds. Our experiment revealed that there is a developmental stage in which lexical V-V compounds are already acquired while syntactic ones are not. Our corpus analysis also found that children acquire lexical V-V compounds and creative nominal compounds at around the same time. Based on these findings, we propose that the Compounding Parameter (e.g., Snyder 2007) regulates the availability of lexical V-V compounds, as well as nominal compounds and other complex predicates.
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