| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study sets to investigate how second language learners (Japanese-, Chinese-, and Korean- Speaking Learners) acquire English prepositions and how learned cross-linguistic associations are formed and how they are represented in a second language users’ mental lexicon. An experimental study has been conducted, to test the hypotheses derived from the two competing theories: Prototype theory (Cognitive Model of Language Acquisition) for the Prototypciality hypothesis vs. UG theory (Minimalist Model of Language Acquisition) for the Economy Driven Development Hypothesis and the Feature Reconstruction Hypothesis. Research questions consist: (i) differential difficulty (developmental order): which prepositions are easier to acquire than others ; and which senses of prepositions are more difficulty to acquire than others, and (ii) roles of lemmatic properties of the first language (L1) and the target second language (L2), and (iii) variability and divergence.
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