Presentation	2007/7/7 Children Prefer the Accusative-Dative Order to the Dative-Accusative Order in Japanese(MAPLL Workshop) Takaaki SUZUKI,
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Abstract(in English)	In recent years, there is a heated discussion about the relative ordering of indirect and direct objects in Japanese. This study investigates Japanese-speaking children's comprehension of the ditransitive construction that involves an indirect object marked with the dative case-marker ni and a direct object with the accusative case-marker o. Preliminary results show that the children prefer the accusative-dative order to the dative-accusative order, contrary to the adults' preference for the opposite order. I discuss some factors that account for the results, including the Iconicity Hypothesis (Cho et al., 2002; Suzuki et al., 1999).
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Keyword(in English)	ditransitive construction / word order / first language acquisition / case
Paper #	TL2007-33
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Conference Date	2007/7/7(1days)
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Title (in English)	Children Prefer the Accusative-Dative Order to the Dative-Accusative Order in Japanese(MAPLL Workshop)
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Keyword(1)	ditransitive construction
Keyword(2)	word order
Keyword(3)	first language acquisition
Keyword(4)	case
1st Author's Name	Takaaki SUZUKI
1st Author's Affiliation	Department of Foreign Languages, Kyoto Sangyo University()
Date	2007/7/7
Paper #	TL2007-33
Volume (vol)	vol.107
Number (no)	138
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	6
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