| Presentation | 2009-07-18 Acquisition of Noun Compounds and Their Structure Kensuke EMURA, Naoki KIMURA, Cornelia Daniela LUPSA, Jungho KIM, Sanae YAMAGUCHI, Hiroko HAGIWARA, Noriaki YUSA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The present study reports on our longitudinal psycholinguistic experiment on the acquisition of noun compounds in Japanese. Twenty-four Japanese-speaking children (mean: 5 years and 8 months) were tested three times for comprehension of the Right-hand Head Rule and the Semantic Relation between the head and its sister element in noun compounds. The results show that children at this stage cannot fully project the head, which is consistent with the claim that the operation non-recursive Merge is only available to a child at the earliest stage of language development and the endocentricity of structures (or an operation called Projection) develops at later stages. In contrast, there is a significant difference in the percentage of correct answers between the Right-hand Head Rule and the Semantic Relation in the control adult group as well as in the children's group, which suggests that lateness in the children's acquisition of knowledge of the Semantic Relation cannot be reduced to maturation, and that the complexities of the (narrow) syntax-discourse interface also come into play. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Noun Compounds / Endocentricity / Righthand Head Rule / Semantic Relation / Comprehension Task |
| Paper # | TL2009-17 |
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| Conference Date | 2009/7/11(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Acquisition of Noun Compounds and Their Structure |
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| Keyword(1) | Noun Compounds |
| Keyword(2) | Endocentricity |
| Keyword(3) | Righthand Head Rule |
| Keyword(4) | Semantic Relation |
| Keyword(5) | Comprehension Task |
| 1st Author's Name | Kensuke EMURA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Naoki KIMURA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 3rd Author's Name | Cornelia Daniela LUPSA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Center for Liberal Arts, Education and Research, Iwate Prefectural University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 4th Author's Name | Jungho KIM |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 5th Author's Name | Sanae YAMAGUCHI |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Humanities, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 6th Author's Name | Hiroko HAGIWARA |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| 7th Author's Name | Noriaki YUSA |
| 7th Author's Affiliation | Department of English, Miyagi Gakuin Women's University:Japan Science and Technology Agency |
| Date | 2009-07-18 |
| Paper # | TL2009-17 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.109 |
| Number (no) | 140 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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