2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A theoretical and exprerimental study on recostruction effects in the first language acquisition
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23520519
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Miyagi Gakuin Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAKAHASHI Shoichi 一橋大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70547835)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 言語の生得性 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, a truth value judgment task revealed that 4-5 year-old English-speaking child participants (mean age 4;8) consistently interpreted reconstruction phenomena, where the dislocated elements should be interpreted in the launch positions.
The series of experiments investigated whether children have command of connectivity effects in certain constructions as adults do, while refining the theoretical analysis involved with reconstruction. We found that 4 year-old children alread have had the ablity to interpret the setences which require the reconsruction. The paper that reports these results of our experiments has been accepted for publication by Studia Linguistica.
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