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Constructing a semantic system: how do children update the semantic knowledge in communication with others

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26870573
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Educational psychology
Linguistics
Research InstitutionKamakura Women's University

Principal Investigator

Saji Noburo  鎌倉女子大学, 児童学部, 准教授 (50725976)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords言語習得 / 語彙習得 / 認知科学 / 意味論 / 言語発達 / 第二言語習得 / 発達 / コミュニケーション
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project examined how 3 to 6-years-old children learn the relationships between synonym verbs in the same semantic domain. The aim of this project was two-folds: 1) how children find the criteria to delineate the boundaries of synonym verb meaning. 2) how children understand the meanings of newly-learned words in relation to the meanings of words they already know. The series of results in general indicated that young children are sensitive to communicative demand of others, and this affects the process of organization process of lexical development.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

言語の意味の体系には,当該言語社会の話者がどのように世界を眺めてきたかという情報が凝縮されている.このため,子どもがどのように意味の体系を習得するのかを調査することは,子どもが言語を通じてどのように社会に適応していくのかを知るのに非常に重要なテーマである.本研究の結果は,このような意味の習得が,子どもがコミュニケーションにおいて他者に様々な手段で情報を伝えようとすることにより進むことを示唆する.このことは,幼児教育分野,言語教育分野において,子どもが多様な文脈,多様な他者との間でコミュニケーションの経験を持つことの重要性を示唆している.

Report

(6 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 4 results) Presentation (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] 大連理工大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Characterization Study on the Categorization of Learning Synonymous Verbs for Japanese-speaking Learners of Chinese.2018

    • Author(s)
      Wang, C., Hong, C., Saji, N.&Liu, X.
    • Journal Title

      Modern Foreign Languages.

      Volume: 印刷中

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 国際誌に投稿する2017

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎
    • Journal Title

      認知言語学会論文集

      Volume: 17

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 語意の再編成過程における情報共有志向性の役割.2016

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎,王沖,洪春子,大庭真人
    • Journal Title

      認知科学会発表論文集

      Volume: 33 Pages: 430-435

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 幼児の言語使用による類推への効果2016

    • Author(s)
      齊藤都,佐治伸郎,廣田昭久
    • Journal Title

      認知科学会発表論文集

      Volume: 33 Pages: 497-506

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 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. (2015).
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

      Volume: 37 Pages: 2080-2085

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Human Locomotion in Languages : Constraints on Moving and Meaning2013

    • Author(s)
      Malt, B. C., Gennari, S., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Saji, N., & Majid, A
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Memory and Language

      Volume: Vol.74 Pages: 107-123

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jml.2013.08.003

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 言語知識はどのように獲得・習得されるか2017

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知言語学会第18回大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] How do children construct the color lexicon? A developmental and comparative study of concept formation2017

    • Author(s)
      Schulze, C.,Grose, G., Imai,M., Saji,N.& Saalbach, H.
    • Organizer
      Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development.
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [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
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How young children construct the lexicon as a connected system: the case of color names2016

    • Author(s)
      Imai, M., Saji, N., Asano, M., Ujihara K., Yasufuku, K., Ebe, M. & Ohba, M.
    • Organizer
      the 38th Annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society(Cogsci2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 言語心理学における記述的研究の可能性2016

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎
    • Organizer
      社会言語科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都外国語大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 国際誌に投稿する2016

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知言語学会
    • Place of Presentation
      明治大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 記号接地の原動力としての仮説形成推論2016

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎,渡邊淳司
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 語意の再編成過程における情報共有志向性の役割2016

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎,王沖,洪春子,大庭真人
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 幼児の言語使用による類推への効果2016

    • Author(s)
      齊藤都,佐治伸郎,廣田昭久
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      北海道大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 記号と身体性2015

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎
    • Organizer
      日本認知科学会
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] How do children construct the color lexicon? : Restructuring the domain as a connected system2015

    • Author(s)
      Noburo Saji, Michiko Asano, Midori Oishi, Mutsumi Imai
    • Organizer
      the 37th Annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Pasadena, California, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-23 – 2015-07-25
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] How do children construct the color lexicon?: Restructuring the domain as a connected system2015

    • Author(s)
      Saji, N., Asano, M., Oishi, M. & Imai, M
    • Organizer
      the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Pasadena Convention Center
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Developmental Process of Organizing a Semantic Domain: the Case of Japanese Color Word Learning2015

    • Author(s)
      Noburo Saji, Midori Oishi, Michiko Asano, Mutsumi Imai
    • Organizer
      the SRCD 2015 Biennial Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 音象徴語に潜む言語普遍性と個別性:産出実験からのアプローチ2014

    • Author(s)
      佐治伸郎,秋田喜美,Katerina Kantartzis, 喜多壮太郎,今井むつみ
    • Organizer
      日本認知言語学会第15回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      慶應義塾大学
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-21
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Where are the concepts? What words can and can’t reveal. E. Margolis and S. Laurence (Eds.), Concepts: New Directions.2015

    • Author(s)
      Malt, B.C., Gennari, S., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Saji, N., & Majid, A.
    • Total Pages
      35
    • Publisher
      MIT Press.
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 言語と身体性2014

    • Author(s)
      今井むつみ,佐治伸郎(編)
    • Total Pages
      342
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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