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Studies of children's acquisition and adults' use of the grammar of reason wh-phrases based on experiments and analyses of naturalistic speech data

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00639
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
Research InstitutionOchanomizu University

Principal Investigator

Yamakoshi Kyoko  お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 教授 (20349179)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 藤井 友比呂  横浜国立大学, 大学院環境情報研究院, 教授 (40513651)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
KeywordsReason wh-adverbials / Word order / Intervention effects / Negative islands / 第1言語獲得 / 理由wh副詞 / 日本語 / 左端部 / 発話誘発法 / 第一言語獲得 / 分裂文 / 右方転移文 / 幼児の文法獲得 / 付加位置 / 自然発話分析 / 実験調査 / 理由WH副詞 / WH句と否定辞の共起 / 子供と親の自然発話 / 理由WH副詞の発話内の位置 / 英語 / フランス語 / 第1言語獲得研究 / 理由wh副詞と疑問副詞の生起位置 / 否定文における生起可能性 / 語順に関するコーパス分析 / 疑問文の解釈に関する心理実験
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research investigated the position of reason wh-adverbials in clause structure by analyzing children’s and mother's naturalistic speech data in English, French, and Japanese, and conducting children's and adults' experiments in Japanese. We focused on the following six issues: (1) co-occurrence of reason wh-adverbials with negation, (2) linear positions of reason wh-adverbials in questions, (3) intervention effects of a negative polarity item in wh-questions, (4) negative island effects in wh-questions, (5) positions of reason wh-adverbials and other adverbs, (6) positions of reason wh-adverbials and focus phrases. The results of theses studies have provided pieces of evidence that Japanese-speaking children, French-speaking children and English-speaking children, like adults, locate reason wh-adverbials higher than other wh-phrases, in the left periphery of clause structure.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

理由wh副詞の特殊性に関しては、Rizzi (1990)で英語・イタリア語・仏語において指摘された後、朝鮮語・中国語・日本語においても議論されてきた (Ko 2005, Stepanov and Tsai 2008, Fujii and Takita 2007等)。英語・朝鮮語の理由wh副詞の獲得研究にはThornton (2008), Ko (2004)があるが、日本語の理由wh副詞がなぜ特殊な性質を持つのか、そしてその特殊性の獲得がどのようになされているのかについての研究はまだ十分行われてこなかったため、理由wh副詞の特殊性の獲得研究は価値があると考えられる。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (24 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 9 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] NPI Intervention Effects in 'Why' Questions in Child Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Ikeda, Kanako, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28

      Volume: Vol.28 Pages: 67-81

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Children’s asymmetrical responses and the incorrect association of focus particles in Japanese right dislocation2021

    • Author(s)
      Riho Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Shimada, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development

      Volume: Vol. 45 Pages: 554-567

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Eliciting focus-sensitive why-questions in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Kodai Aramaki, Kanako Ikeda, Kyoko Yamakoshi, Tomohiro Fujii
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 11th international conference of experimental linguistics

      Volume: 11 Pages: 39-42

    • DOI

      10.36505/exling-2020/11/0007/000422

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Agent-first Strategy and WOrd Order: Children's Comprehension of Right Dislocation and Clefts in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Shimada, Yuko Masaki, Rika Okada, Akari Ohba, Ianako Ikeda, and Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development

      Volume: 44 Pages: 586-595

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Agent-First Strategy and Word Order: Children's Comprehension of Right Dislocations and Clefts in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Shimada, Yuko Masaki, Rika Okada, Akari Ohba, Kanako Ikeda, and Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Acquisition

      Volume: 43 Pages: 586-595

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Children’s Acquisition of Scope Assignment in Non-Canonical Word Order: (Anti-)Reconstruction Properties in Right Dislocation and Clefts in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Okada Rika, Hiroyuki Shimada, Akari Ohba, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of The 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics

      Volume: 15 Pages: 0-13

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Why in the Left Periphery in Child Japanese: Evidence from Children's Word Order2019

    • Author(s)
      Kanako Ikeda, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics

      Volume: 14 Pages: 91-102

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Acquisition of Pourquoi ‘Why’ in the Left Periphery -Evidence from the Word Order in Child French-2019

    • Author(s)
      Riho Mochizuki, Tomohiro Fujii, Kanako Ikeda, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      IEICE Technical Report, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

      Volume: 2019 Pages: 1-5

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] WHY IN THE LEFT PERIPHERY IN CHILD JAPANESE: EVIDENCE FROM CHILDREN’S WORD ORDER2019

    • Author(s)
      Kanako Ikeda, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics

      Volume: Vol.14

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Eliciting the Left Periphery in Japanese2022

    • Author(s)
      Kodai Aramaki, Tomohiro Fujii
    • Organizer
      Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics 6
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Experimental studies on clefts and right dislocations in child Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamakoshi, Hiroyuki Shimada
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Children's incorrect association of the focus particle 'dake' in Japanese clefts2021

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Shimada, Riho Mochizuki, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Intervention Effects with NPIs and the Position of Naze ‘Why’ in Child Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Kanako Ikeda, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report 2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Children’s Interpretations of Focus expressions in Japanese Right Dislocation2020

    • Author(s)
      Riho Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Shimada, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Eliciting focus-sensitive why-questions in Japanese2020

    • Author(s)
      Kodai Aramaki, Kanako Ikeda, Kyoko Yamakoshi, Tomohiro Fujii
    • Organizer
      The 11th international conference of experimental linguistics
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Children’s asymmetrical responses and the incorrect association of focus particles in Japanese right dislocation2020

    • Author(s)
      Riho Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Shimada, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Agent-First Strategy and Word Order: Children's Comprehension of Right Dislocations and Clefts in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Shimada, Yuko Masaki, Rika Okada, Akari Ohba, Kanako Ikeda, and Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Children’s Acquisition of Scope Assignment in Non-Canonical Word Order: (Anti-)Reconstruction Properties in Right Dislocation and Clefts in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Okada Rika, Hiroyuki Shimada, Akari Ohba, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Acquisition of Pourquoi ‘Why’ in the Left Periphery -Evidence from the Word Order in Child French-2019

    • Author(s)
      Riho Mochizuki, Tomohiro Fujii, Kanako Ikeda, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Position of Why in Children’s Clause Structure: Evidence from English and Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Kanako Ikeda, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 41st GLOW conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] WHY IN THE LEFT PERIPHERY IN CHILD JAPANESE: EVIDENCE FROM CHILDREN’S WORD ORDER2018

    • Author(s)
      Kanako Ikeda, Tomohiro Fujii, Kyoko Yamakoshi
    • Organizer
      The 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 『言語理論・言語獲得理論から見たキータームと名著解題』, 名著解題58 Thornton, R. (2008)担当, p.288-290.2023

    • Author(s)
      遊佐典昭・小泉政利・野村忠央・増富和浩(編)
    • Total Pages
      361
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] お茶の水女子大学 研究者情報 研究活動 山腰京子

    • URL

      http://researchers2.ao.ocha.ac.jp/html/100001160_ja.html

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks]

    • URL

      http://researchers2.ao.ocha.ac.jp/html/100001160_ja.html

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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