2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Syntax interface issues in the acquisition of L2 English prepositions
| Project/Area Number |
26770195
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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 |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 前置詞 / 統語論インターフェース / 統語論的随意性 / 終結性 / 意味素性 / 空間表現 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research project is to empirically investigate the L2 acquisition of English prepositions at the syntax interface, paying attention to both syntactic and lexical issues. We conducted perception and production tasks with L2 English learners, using animated video clips as semantic stimuli. The results indicate that I) the comprehension of prepositions is sensitive to argument structures with verbs, II) whether the spacial denotation of each preposition is restricted is crucial to comprehension, and III) input does not affect the acquisition of prepositions as much as we expected. We also started developing a learning method with animated video clips which turned out to be effective, in particular, for learning relatively unfamiliar prepositions.
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| Free Research Field |
第二言語習得
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