Investigations on the process and mechanism of acquisition of the knowledge of logical connectives and semantic composition in Japanese and English

• Project/Area Number: 20820009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Ibaraki University
• Principal Investigator: GORO Takuya Ibaraki University, 人文学部, 准教授 (60509834)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,224,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,480,000、Indirect Cost: ¥744,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,521,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,170,000、Indirect Cost: ¥351,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,703,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,310,000、Indirect Cost: ¥393,000)
• Keywords: 言語学 / 第一言語習得 / 第二言語習得

Research Abstract

This study examines how language learners interpret sentences containing negation and a logical connective in Japanese and English. Series of experiments were conducted with children acquiring their first language and adult second language leaners. Experimental results show that language learners often access interpretations that diverge from the standard interpretive patterns in the target language. The data provides an insight into how this linguistic knowledge is learned by different language learners.

Research Products

• [Presentation] The rise of logical connectives in first and second language acquisition (2011)
  • Author(s): Takuya Goro
  • Organizer: 南山大学言語学研究センター第36回コロキュアム
  • Place of Presentation: 南山大学(愛知県)
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-05
• [Presentation] Freedom of scope in language development. (2010)
  • Author(s): Takuya Goro
  • Organizer: Workshop on Acquisition of Scope and Phrase Structure
  • Place of Presentation: Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港)
  • Year and Date: 2010-12-22
• [Presentation] Jeffrey Lidz and Collin Phillips, Using verb information to escape from kindergarten-paths in English and Japanese wh-questions. (2010)
  • Author(s): Akira Omaki, Imogen Davidson White, Takuya Goro
  • Organizer: The 35th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
  • Place of Presentation: Boston University (アメリカ合衆国)
  • Year and Date: 2010-11-05
• [Presentation] Takuya Goro and Rosalind Thornton, Children's interpretation of disjunction in Japanese questions. (2010)
  • Author(s): Nobuaki Akagi
  • Organizer: Generative Approach to Language Acquisition in North America 4
  • Place of Presentation: University of Toronto (カナダ)
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-01
• [Presentation] Rosalind Thornton and Takuya Goro, Toward a Universal Typology of Yes-no Questions : Implications from Child Japanese. (2010)
  • Author(s): Nobuaki Akagi
  • Organizer: GLOW in ASIA VIII
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing Language and Culture University (中国)
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-14
• [Presentation] Imogen Davidson White, Takuya Goro, Jeffrey Lidz and Collin Phillips, Verb primacy and kindergarten-path effects in wh-processing : Evidence from English and Japanese. (2010)
  • Author(s): Akira Omaki
  • Organizer: 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
  • Place of Presentation: New York University (アメリカ合衆国)
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-11
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