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The acquisition and use of embedded clauses by Japanese learners of English

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370707
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionChuo University

Principal Investigator

Wakabayashi Shigenori  中央大学, 文学部, 教授 (80291962)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords埋込節 / 不定詞と動名詞 / 動詞補部 / 埋め込み節 / 下位範疇化 / 不定詞 / 動名詞 / 生成文法 / 第二言語習得モデル / 補文標識 / 補文 / 完結性 / 母語の影響 / 第二言語習得 / 日本語 / 英語 / 語彙 / 動詞
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is concerned with Japanese speaking learners’ grammar of embedded clauses used as complements of verbs. First, it focused on the description of Japanese to-clause, arguably the translation equivalent to that-clause, and the properties of verbs that take to-clause and that-clause as their complements. A pilot test was carried out, whose results showed that our participants have little exposure to verbs of our interest, such as blame ‘seme(ru)’, which are not used with that-clause in English but whose translation equivalent are used with to clause in Japanese, and hence reliable data were difficult to be collected in the main experiment. Hence, we changed the direction of research, and investigated how learners differentiated to infinitive from -ing gerunds as complements of verbs, and how they calculated the telicity of action verbs based on the definiteness and number of complement noun phrases.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Derivational Economy: Evidence from Infinitive and Gerund in L2 English2016

    • Author(s)
      WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori, HOKARI, Tomohiro, HANIU, Yasuaki, FUJIMOTO, Takaaki, & KIMURA, Hirotaka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of PacSLRF2016

      Volume: - Pages: 231-236

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Constituent Order Errors in L2 English Deverbal Synthetic Compounds: Evidence for the Use of Syntax2016

    • Author(s)
      HOKARI, Tomohiro, WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori, NISHIUMI, Mayu & SATO, Yasukuni
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of PacSLRF2016

      Volume: - Pages: 77-82

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Articles, telicity and lexical transfer2018

    • Author(s)
      若林茂則 木村崇是
    • Organizer
      日本第二言語習得学会秋の研修会 同志社大学.
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Second/foreign language systems: Why are some grammatical rules more difficult than others2018

    • Author(s)
      Wakabayashi, Shigenori
    • Organizer
      The Scientific Forum, Rijeka University, Croatia.
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The acquisition of telicity by Japanese learners of English2017

    • Author(s)
      Takayuki Kimura, Shigenori Wakabayashi
    • Organizer
      The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1)
    • Place of Presentation
      The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Economy in Complement Selection in L2 English2017

    • Author(s)
      WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori
    • Organizer
      LT Research Forum,Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
    • Place of Presentation
      City University of Hong Kong
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Economy i n L2 Grammar: The Use of Grammati cal Morphemes and Sentences2016

    • Author(s)
      WAKABAYASHI , S. HOKARI , T DUENAS, I . F
    • Organizer
      Pacific Second Language Reserach Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-11
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日本における言語教育・学習の課題2016

    • Author(s)
      Shigenori Wakabayashi and
    • Organizer
      中央大学人文科学研究所公開研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-03-06
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Economy in L2 grammar: The use of How do Japanese learners of English use de-verbal compounds?2016

    • Author(s)
      HOKARI, Tomohiro, WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori, NISHIUMI, Mayu & SATO, Yasukuni
    • Organizer
      The Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      中央大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] JLE’s use of infinitive and gerund, and of more and -er2016

    • Author(s)
      HANIU, Yasuaki, WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori, HOKARI, Tomohiro, FUJIMOTO, Takaaki, & KIMURA, Hirotaka
    • Organizer
      The Pacific Second Language Acquisition Research Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      Chuo University, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] JLE’s production of small clauses and post nominal modification2016

    • Author(s)
      WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori, DUENAS, Ian Francis, OTA, Emi & NARUMI, Yukiko
    • Organizer
      The Pacific Second Language Acquisition Research Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      Chuo University, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Formation of L2 English Wh-Questions Among Cebuano-Speaking Children2016

    • Author(s)
      DUENAS, Ian Francis& WAKABAYASHI, Shigenori
    • Organizer
      The Pacific Second Language Acquisition Research Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      Chuo University, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 3人称単数現在の-sの難しさの多層性に基づく文法知識と使用のモデル2015

    • Author(s)
      若林茂則
    • Organizer
      名古屋大学国際言語文化研究科主催公開講演会
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] 第二言語習得モノグラフシリーズ22018

    • Author(s)
      若林茂則 木村崇是
    • Total Pages
      37
    • Publisher
      くろしお出版
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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