| Presentation | 2019-07-27 Can Japanese children learn polite speech from parental input? Franklin Chang, Tomoko Tatsumi, Hirofumi Hayakawa, Misa Yoshizaki, Natsuki Oka, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Japanese polite language (teineigo) varies with the speaker-addressee relationship as well as social norms. In corpus studies, Japanese children show early correct use of these forms compared to use of polite language in English. To confirm this experimentally, we tested whether 3- to 6-year-old children could vary in their use of teineigo for different video situations and we found that children used the correct forms depending on the formality of the situation and this ability did not vary with age. However, it is not clear how they acquire these abilities early in development, because there is a social norm that Japanese parents and children use non-polite plain speech with each other. We performed a large-scale corpus analysis of polite language using a probabilistic measure of intended addressee. We found that the parental input varied with addressees in a way that could support the learning of politeness distinctions. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | polite language / Japanese / corpus / parental input / social / language acquisition |
| Paper # | TL2019-14 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-20 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2019/7/27(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Hirao Seminar House, Konan University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Hiroshi Sano(Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas Co. Ltd.) / Akinori Takada(Ferris Univ.) / Akio Ishikawa(KDDI Research) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Can Japanese children learn polite speech from parental input? |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | polite language |
| Keyword(2) | Japanese |
| Keyword(3) | corpus |
| Keyword(4) | parental input |
| Keyword(5) | social |
| Keyword(6) | language acquisition |
| 1st Author's Name | Franklin Chang |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies(Kobe City U.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tomoko Tatsumi |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kobe University(Kobe U.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hirofumi Hayakawa |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Tamagawa University(Tamagawa U.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Misa Yoshizaki |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Kyoto Institute of Technology(KIT) |
| 5th Author's Name | Natsuki Oka |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Kyoto Institute of Technology(KIT) |
| Date | 2019-07-27 |
| Paper # | TL2019-14 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.119 |
| Number (no) | TL-151 |
| Page | pp.pp.17-19(TL), |
| #Pages | 3 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-20 (TL) |