2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Toward elucidating the acquisition of Japanese based on syntactic studies
| Project/Area Number |
23720200
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
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Principal Investigator |
ISOBE Miwa 東京藝術大学, 言語・音声トレーニングセンター, 講師 (00449018)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 言語獲得 / 言語機能 / 与格主語構文 / 直接受身文 / かきまぜ / 関係節 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project explored children's acquisition of Japanese by conducting experiments and corpus data analyses, with a focus on constructions such as the dative subject construction, the relative clause construction, and the direct passive. Series of experiments showed that participants aged 3 to 6 were able to comprehend these constructions correctly, while corpus data analyses revealed that some of the constructions are infrequent in child-directed speech. These findings suggest that young Japanese-speaking children have adult-like knowledge of the relevant constructions and lend support to the hypothesis that children acquire these constructions based on innately specified linguistic knowledge.
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