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Experimental Studies of Children's Acquisition of Causatives in Japanese

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370479
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionOchanomizu University

Principal Investigator

Yamakoshi Kyoko  お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 准教授 (20349179)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords日本語 / 語彙的使役動詞 / 生産的使役動詞 / 直接使役・間接使役 / 複文構造 / 質疑応答法 / 絵画選択法 / 真偽値判断法 / 第1言語習得 / 使役動詞 / 語彙的使役 / 生産的使役 / 直接使役 / 関節使役 / 横断的実験調査 / 生成文法理論 / 語彙的・生産的使役動詞
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study experimentally investigates children's acquisition of the meanings and the structures of causatives in Japanese. In Japanese, lexical causatives mainly have direct causative meanings and productive causatives mainily have inidirect causative meanings. This study examined whether 3 to 6-year-old children know the distinction by using the question-answering task, the picture selection task and the truth-value judgment task. The results show that the acquisition of direct causative meanings of lexical causatives is quite early, around the age of four, whereas the acquisition of indirect causative meanings is late, possibly around the age of seven. I have suggested that the causes of the delay may be due to the late acquisition of the bi-clausal structure of productive causatives and the position of the causative morpheme sase.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2017 2014 Other

All Presentation (1 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Children's Interpretations of Lexical and Productive Causatives in Japanese2014

    • Author(s)
      Yamakoshi, Kyoko and Kayoko Angata
    • Organizer
      Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      国立国語研究所
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 論文タイトル:”An Experimental Study on Children’s Comprehension of Lexical and Productive Causatives in Japanese.” In The Festschrift in Honor of Professor John B. Whitman.2017

    • Author(s)
      Kyoko Yamakoshi, Kaori Miura, Hanako Jorinbo, Kayoko Angata and Kaori Yamasaki
    • Publisher
      John Benjamin Publishing Company
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] お茶の水女子大学 研究者情報 研究活動

    • URL

      http://researchers2.ao.ocha.ac.jp/html/100001160_knkyu_prsn_1_ja.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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