Presentation 2013-08-03
The Development of Linguistic Cues for Event-Verb Mapping in Japanese Children
Kyoko SAKAMOTO, Noburo SAJI, Mutsumi IMAI, Hiromu SAKAI,
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Abstract(in English) In this study, we investigated how Japanese-speaking 3-, 5-year-old children and adults utilize linguistic cues for novel verb learning and how the use of such cues develops. Our results showed that 1) the semantic cues (i.e., semantic role) are easier to utilize for extraction of the events than syntactic/morphosyntactic cues (i.e., the number of arguments/case particles) in the earlier stage of development, (2) along development, children come to use multiple cues effectively, and (3) even 5-year-old children do not have enough knowledge to utilizing linguistic cues in the same way as adults, suggesting that their mechanism for learning verbs is different from adults' one.
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Keyword(in English) Argument dropping / Case particles / Semantic roles / Causative event / Lexical Concepts
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Conference Date 2013/7/27(1days)
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Title (in English) The Development of Linguistic Cues for Event-Verb Mapping in Japanese Children
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Keyword(1) Argument dropping
Keyword(2) Case particles
Keyword(3) Semantic roles
Keyword(4) Causative event
Keyword(5) Lexical Concepts
1st Author's Name Kyoko SAKAMOTO
1st Author's Affiliation Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute()
2nd Author's Name Noburo SAJI
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Faculty of Law, Keio University
3rd Author's Name Mutsumi IMAI
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
4th Author's Name Hiromu SAKAI
4th Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University
Date 2013-08-03
Paper # TL2013-22
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 174
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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