| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study explores the production and acquisition of rhetorical questions (RQs) with particular reference to English and Japanese. We show that some phonological characteristics appear when RQs are generated within the appropriate context. We clarify that English RQs with multiple wh-words are accepted, as Japanese RQs are, under the condition that the action, which is involved in the proposition, is completed, and both the addresser and the addressee share the knowledge. For both English and Japanese RQs, we demonstrate islands are not absolute and wh-words can be extracted from the lower position of the structural hierarchy of non-finite sentences. We prove that young children tend to have difficulties with the output of RQs because they cannot share common ground with the people around them. We explore how frequently RQs occur in the second language acquisition of the English of university students.
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