| Project/Area Number |
60510242
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
英語・英文学(アメリカ語･アメリカ文学)
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEYA Akira (1986) Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University, 教育学部, 教授 (40016572)
大津 由紀雄 (1985) 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 助教授
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OTSU Yukio Associate Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University, 教育学部, 助教授 (80100410)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1986
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1986)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1985: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Keywords | language acquistion / generative grammar / psycholinguistics / complement / infinitive / ラムダ演算子 |
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| Research Abstract |
We have conducted: 1. survey of analyses of "adjective + infinitive" constructions in English in various theoretical frameworks; 2. biographical survey of the above constructions; 3. experiments using the sentence completion task with English-speaking subjicts (ages: 3-7); 4. analyses of children's utterance data in natural contexts.
We have found: 1. that Equi construction is acquired first, and then Tough construction; 2.that Pretty construction is initially acquired as undifferentiated from Tough construction, and is later differentiated from the latter; 3. That Tough construction is acquired at a point that is much earlier (around the age of four) than previously thought (e.g., C. Chomsky 1969).
We have considered theoretical implications, both linguistic and psycho-linguistic, of these findings.
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