2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cognitive Typological Study on Aquisition of Relative and Complement Clauses in English: Based on Composition Data by Japanese University Students
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25370689
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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 | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HORIE KAORU 名古屋大学, 大学院国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (70181526)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 第二言語習得 / 複文構造 / 関係詞節 / 同格節 / 主節 / 従属節 / 言語類型論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we have clarified how the characteristics of Japanese noun modifying clause affect acquisition of English relative clauses or appositive clauses by Japanese learners. Japanese language does not distinguish relative clauses and appositive clauses either morphologically or syntactically. We have pointed out that this causes difficulty for Japanese learners to acquire distinction between types of relative clauses or between relative clauses and appositive clauses by showing how often they actually make mistakes in these respects.
Furthermore, it has also become clear that Japanese learners make mistakes on these points more often than Korean and Chinere learners, whose languages does not have strict distinction between relatives and appositives but have some features characterizing types of noun-modifying clauses.
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| Free Research Field |
対照言語学
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