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Presentation 2014-02-01 15:40
Can Japanese-speaking 2-year-olds use the accusative case marker to infer the meaning of novel verbs
Tessei Kobayashi (NTT), Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) HCS2013-81
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) To investigate the developmental pathways in early verb learning, the present study used an intermodal preferential looking paradigm with a dialogue phase to examine whether 27-month-old Japanese-learning children can infer the meaning of novel verbs based on the accusative case marker. The results showed that the children hearing a single-argument sentence with a direct object marked with accusative “o” looked significantly longer at a causative scene than a non-causative scene. This suggests that Japanese-learning children at 27 months of age already acquire the ability to infer verb meaning based on morpho-syntactic cues such as case markers.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Child language development / Verb learning / Syntactic bootstrapping / Case marker / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 426, HCS2013-81, pp. 67-72, Feb. 2014.
Paper # HCS2013-81 
Date of Issue 2014-01-25 (HCS) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee HCS  
Conference Date 2014-02-01 - 2014-02-02 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kagoshima University (Korimoto Campus) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc. 
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Conference Code 2014-02-HCS 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Can Japanese-speaking 2-year-olds use the accusative case marker to infer the meaning of novel verbs 
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Keyword(1) Child language development  
Keyword(2) Verb learning  
Keyword(3) Syntactic bootstrapping  
Keyword(4) Case marker  
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1st Author's Name Tessei Kobayashi  
1st Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
2nd Author's Name Takaaki Suzuki  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyoto Sangyo University (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.)
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Date Time 2014-02-01 15:40:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for HCS 
Paper # HCS2013-81 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.426 
Page pp.67-72 
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Date of Issue 2014-01-25 (HCS) 


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