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Acquisition of Japanese verbal compounding: Theoretical and experimental studies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K02510
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionTokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

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)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 岡部 玲子  日本大学, 法学部, 准教授 (60512358)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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)
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
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.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Lexical V-V compounds in child Japanese: An experimental study2018

    • Author(s)
      Miwa Isobe, Reiko Okabe and Yasuhito Kido
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese Linguistics

      Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Pages: 3-21

    • DOI

      10.1515/jjl-2018-0002

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Miwa Isobe and Reiko Okabe
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America

      Volume: 印刷中

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Acquisition of V-V and N-N Compounds in Japanese: From the Viewpoint of the Compounding Parameter2017

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Okabe and Miwa Isobe
    • Organizer
      The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese2016

    • Author(s)
      Miwa Isobe and Reiko Okabe
    • Organizer
      Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 7
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日本語の統語的複合動詞の獲得ー理解実験を通して2015

    • Author(s)
      岡部玲子・磯部美和
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会第151回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-28
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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