The structure and characteristics of the improvised narratives in the interaction between a care-taker and his/her child

• Project/Area Number: 26560421
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: OHBA Masato 慶應義塾大学, 政策・メディア研究科(藤沢), 研究員 (20386775)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 佐治 伸郎 鎌倉女子大学, 児童学部, 講師 (50725976)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 教育的環境 / 状況起因的な語り

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When care-takers talk to their own children on a reference target, the target is not always guaranteed to be stable in front of them (e.g. A rainbow disappears. Or a bird will be gone.) If the target is salient in the situation, "Resonance" is a remarkable form in the care-takers' speech for early stage of children. If the target is not stable or salient, they use a cue or trace of the target for the association or the imagination for the target.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The Effect of Spontaneous Verbal Production on Children’s Analogical Reasoning (2017)
  • Author(s): 齊藤 都、佐治 伸郎、廣田 昭久
  • Journal Title: Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Pages: 376-394
  • DOI: 10.11225/jcss.24.376
  • NAID: 130006407250
  • ISSN: 1341-7924, 1881-5995
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] The role of contrast in construct the lexicon as a connected system: from the initial mapping to later boundary delineation. (2017)
  • Author(s): Imai, M., Saji, N., Asano, M., Ebe, M. & Ohba, M.
  • Organizer: The International Association for the Study of Child Language(IASCL)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] How young children construct the lexicon as a connected system: The case of color names. (2016)
  • Author(s): Imai M, Saji, N., Asano, M., Ujihara, Y., Yasufuku, K., Ebe M & Ohba, M.
  • Organizer: The 38th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2016)
  • Place of Presentation: Philadelphia, USA
  • Year and Date: 2016-08-10
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] How do children construct the color lexicon?: Restructuring the domain as a connected system. (2015)
  • Author(s): Saji, N., Asano, M., Oishi, M. & Imai, M.
  • Organizer: The 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Place of Presentation: Pasadena Convention Center, CA, USA
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-23
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The developmental process of organizing a semantic domain: the case of Japanese color word learning. (2015)
  • Author(s): Saji, N.,Oishi, M., Asano, M.,& Imai, M.
  • Organizer: SRCD 2015 Biennial Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-19 – 2015-03-21
• [Book] 言語の意味を共につくる．今井むつみ・佐治伸郎(編)．『岩波講座コミュニケーションの認知科学第一巻：言語と身体性』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 佐治伸郎
  • Total Pages: 342
  • Publisher: 岩波書店