| Presentation | 2018-07-28 [Poster Presentation] Acquisition of passive sentences by Japanese children Reiko Okabe, Miwa Isobe, Yukino Kobayashi, Tomoko Monou, Shigeto Kawahara, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Japanese-speaking children are reported to begin producing passive sentences without ?ni phrases (i.e., short passives) at the age of 2. Some experimental studies have also shown that 3-5-year-olds exhibit adult-like interpretations of Japanese short passives. The methodologies of these studies may have put too great a cognitive burden on very young participants, and children younger than 3 may in fact be able to interpret passive sentences. To address this problem, the present study employs the preferential looking paradigm using eye-tracking technology to examine comprehension of Japanese short passives by 2-3-year-olds. We found that children looked at congruent events longer when they heard active sentences with a verb such as push and kick, but at incongruent ones longer when they encountered passive sentences with the same verbs. This result suggests that they correctly interpret active sentences with push and kick but not passive sentences, possibly due to the Lexical-ordering Strategy. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | acquisitionpassiveeye-trackingJapanese |
| Paper # | TL2018-31 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-07-21 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2018/7/28(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Keio 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(Waseda Univ.) / 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) | [Poster Presentation] Acquisition of passive sentences by Japanese children |
| Sub Title (in English) | An eye-tracking study of 2-3-year-olds |
| Keyword(1) | acquisitionpassiveeye-trackingJapanese |
| 1st Author's Name | Reiko Okabe |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Senshu University(Senshu Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Miwa Isobe |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Tokyo University of the Arts(TUA) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Yukino Kobayashi |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The National University Corporation of Tsukuba University of Technology(NTUT) |
| 4th Author's Name | Tomoko Monou |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Mejiro University(Mejiro Univ.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Shigeto Kawahara |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Keio University(Keio Univ.) |
| Date | 2018-07-28 |
| Paper # | TL2018-31 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.118 |
| Number (no) | TL-163 |
| Page | pp.pp.93-97(TL), |
| #Pages | 5 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-07-21 (TL) |