2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Longitudinal Study of the Acquisition of English Interrogative Sentences and Relative Clauses by Japanese-English Bilingual Children
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23520751
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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 |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 日英バイリンガル / 言語習得 / 英語 |
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| Research Abstract |
Utterances containing an objective relative clause which a Japanese-English bilingual child produced between ages 5-12 were analyzed. Results show the following: The child (a) produced far more OO-type than SO-type relative clauses; (b) used the relative pronoun what first, followed by the contact clauses and that; (c) produced very few relativized noun phrases without main clauses; (d) used the pronoun I most frequently as the subject of relative clauses; (e) frequently used what or nouns ending with -thing as antecedents but also used other nouns; and (f) produced resumptive pronouns and dropped required prepositions in relative clauses.
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Research Products
(1 results)
