| Presentation | 2008-08-08 Children's Word-Order Preferences in Japanese Ditransitive Constructions Shin-Ichi TAMURA, Masatoshi KOIZUMI, Takuya GORO, Natsuko KATSURA, Yoshiaki KANEKO, Noriaki YUSA, Hiroko HAGIWARA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This paper reports our experimental findings on Japanese children's word-order preference in the production of Japanese ditransitive constructions. We investigated whether the possessor-hood of dative arguments of ditransitive verbs affects 4 or 5-year-old children's word-order preferences for the two objects (Dative-Accusative vs. Accusative-Dative), by employing an elicited production task. In our experiment, children showed different word-order preferences depending on the existence of the possessor-hood: when the dative arguments bears possessor role, the Dative-Accusative order is more preferred, and when they do not necessarily entail possessor-hood, the preference or one order was not observed. Our results suggest that children learning Japanese have syntactical knowledge of two different goal positions in Japanese ditransitive constructions although the relevant constructions apparently have only one goal position. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Double Object Construction / Dative Constructions / Change-of-Possession / Change-of-Location / Scrambling / Elicited Production Task |
| Paper # | TL2008-25 |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Children's Word-Order Preferences in Japanese Ditransitive Constructions |
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| Keyword(1) | Double Object Construction |
| Keyword(2) | Dative Constructions |
| Keyword(3) | Change-of-Possession |
| Keyword(4) | Change-of-Location |
| Keyword(5) | Scrambling |
| Keyword(6) | Elicited Production Task |
| 1st Author's Name | Shin-Ichi TAMURA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masatoshi KOIZUMI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 3rd Author's Name | Takuya GORO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | The College of Humanities, Ibaraki University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 4th Author's Name | Natsuko KATSURA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 5th Author's Name | Yoshiaki KANEKO |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 6th Author's Name | Noriaki YUSA |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Arts, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 7th Author's Name | Hiroko HAGIWARA |
| 7th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| Date | 2008-08-08 |
| Paper # | TL2008-25 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 184 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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