2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Prototype-effect in L2 acquisition of transitive constructions
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22K13144
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | prototype theory / language acquisition / transitive construction / case particle 'o' / L2 Japanese / Vietnamese-speakers / Persian-speakers / Hindi-speakers |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The objective of this cross-linguistic study is to examine whether L2 learners of Japanese are sensitive to verb transitivity when selecting case particles. I adopt a prototype-based view of acquisition where I also take L1 influence and overall language proficiency into account.
The main achievement for the first year of this research is the data collected through surveys targeting Japanese language learners whose L1 is Vietnamese. This required composing a Japanese verb-list of around 600 commonly taught transitive verbs and their translation in Vietnamese and investigating their argument structure to construct the research questionnaire. Another achievement is a peer-reviewed article on the effect of prototypicality on Persian-speaking learners use of Japanese particles.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The overseas surveys were delayed, and the project timeline pushed back because the Japanese courses had not completely gone back to face-to-face classes making data collection difficult.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
-create the second questionnaire and implement it in India.
-analyze the data and report it in a peer-reviewed journal.
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| Causes of Carryover |
I could not travel to either Vietnam or India for the survey as the the universities had not returned to face-to-face classes. The survey targeting Vietnamese-speakers was conducted online. I hope to use the surplus as travel expenses for an international conference.
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