Ambiguities in children's language input and linguistic/communicative disambiguating cues: a comparison between Japanese and French

• Project/Area Number: 23K18644
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: LU YOUTAO 東京大学, ニューロインテリジェンス国際研究機構, 特任研究員 (60979459)
• Project Period (FY): 2023-08-31 – 2025-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000); Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: homophone / word learning / ambiguity resolution / context / social cue

Outline of Research at the Start

This project aims to elucidate how children learn homophones. We first measure the occurrence of homophones and the availability of contexts in language input to Japanese and French children. Then we conduct experiments to examine the process of context-aided homophone learning in both languages.