| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The Factor Transplantation Principle, a model-dependent extension principle which governs the transition from a language acquisition stage to the next, predicts that there exists in English a rule which assigns primary stress to the left word in pseudo-compounds, and this prediction was borne out.
A close examination of English auxiliary contraction revealed that the auxiliary contraction is more basic when the adjacent left environment is its object, a nonconjoined string, a simplex noun phrase, A non-wh word, and a constituent than otherwise, and these conditions proved to be expressible in the format of context-free extension principles as envisioned in Kajita's dynamic model.
The basicness of nouns referring to things, and of verbs referring to actions, as postulated in deriving Primary Stress Rulell on the basis of Primary Stress Rulell, turned out to be quite plausible in a number of senses. It is endorsed, for instance, by studies on acquisition.
These findings convincingly show that the instantaneous model of language acquisition should be supecreded by the present working hypothesis. Namely, the transition from a language acquisition stage to the next is not arbitrary, but is governed by principles which utilizes some grammatical properties found at a prior stage, and which are responsible for some aspects of the core-periphery distinction present in adult grammar.
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