| Budget Amount *help |
¥13,650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To learn a language, children need to attend to linguistic aspects of an utterance such as words, phrases and sentences and ignore temporal change patterns of pitch and intensity (word prosody or sentential intonation pattern), which are used to discriminate between words in some languages including Japanese and sometimes convey speaker’s affect more precisely than lexical contents. The present research aimed to reveal (1) when and with what cues Japanese infants begin to discriminate a word (object label) that should be associated with a referent object from other types of speech sound, and (2) developmental trajectory in which Japanese children use pitch pattern information of words and sentences to recognize word meanings and speaker affect.
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