| Presentation | 2015-08-06 Japanese Learners' Interpretation of PRO in English Control Structures Noriko Yoshimura, Mineharu Nakayama, Atsushi Fujimori, Hiroya Shimizu, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | This study investigates whether Japanese speakers of English (JSE) can identify the antecedent of PRO in control structures in English. Results of our paper-and-pencil questionnaire experiment on 62 JSEs (3 groups) reveal that correct response rates differed significantly by learner group, not by subject/object control type, and poor performance emerged when verb information was yet to be learned. We conclude that L1 knowledge can facilitate JSEs’ early acquisition of the PRO subject unless there is a mapping mismatch between L1 and L2 with respect to the syntactic-semantic structure of the matrix verb. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | PROControlminimal distance constraintEPPpositive L1 transferargument structureJapanese EFL learnersmapping mismatch |
| Paper # | TL2015-31 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2015/8/5(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Tsuda College |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
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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) | Japanese Learners' Interpretation of PRO in English Control Structures |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | PROControlminimal distance constraintEPPpositive L1 transferargument structureJapanese EFL learnersmapping mismatch |
| 1st Author's Name | Noriko Yoshimura |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Shizuoka(U Shizuoka) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Mineharu Nakayama |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The Ohio State University(OSU) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Atsushi Fujimori |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Shizuoka University(Shizuoka U) |
| 4th Author's Name | Hiroya Shimizu |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Yoshiwara High School(Yoshihara HS) |
| Date | 2015-08-06 |
| Paper # | TL2015-31 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-176 |
| Page | pp.pp.71-76(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-07-29 (TL) |