| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Research Abstract |
How do the very young childrren acquire the verbal system? It has been argued that children go through the Root Infinitive (analogue) stage where tense is missing and no T- and C-related items appear in the natural production. We argue based on the longitudinal studies and corpus analysis that Japanese-speaking children, just like children learning other languages, go through the stage where tense is missing, and the stage can be well explained by the Truncation Hypothesis proposed by Rizzi (1993/1994).
We further argue that there are three types of Root Infinitive (anaoogues) in the child languages: Root Infinitives (Dutch, French, German, among others), Bare Verbs (English, Swahili, Japanese onomatopoeia among others) and Surrogate Infinitives (Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Kuwaiti Arabic, among others).The cross-linguistic analysis of the Root Infinitive (anaogues) phenomenon provides us a piece of strong evidence for the universality and the possible variations in child language.
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