| Presentation | 2014-02-01 Can Japanese-speaking 2-year-olds use the accusative case marker to infer the meaning of novel verbs? Tessei KOBAYASHI, Takaaki SUZUKI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | To investigate the developmental pathways in early verb learning, the present study used an intermodal preferential looking paradigm with a dialogue phase to examine whether 27-month-old Japanese-learning children can infer the meaning of novel verbs based on the accusative case marker. The results showed that the children hearing a single-argument sentence with a direct object marked with accusative "o" looked significantly longer at a causative scene than a non-causative scene. This suggests that Japanese-learning children at 27 months of age already acquire the ability to infer verb meaning based on morpho-syntactic cues such as case markers. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Child language development / Verb learning / Syntactic bootstrapping / Case markers |
| Paper # | HCS2013-81 |
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| Committee | HCS |
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| Conference Date | 2014/1/25(1days) |
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| Registration To | Human Communication Science (HCS) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Can Japanese-speaking 2-year-olds use the accusative case marker to infer the meaning of novel verbs? |
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| Keyword(1) | Child language development |
| Keyword(2) | Verb learning |
| Keyword(3) | Syntactic bootstrapping |
| Keyword(4) | Case markers |
| 1st Author's Name | Tessei KOBAYASHI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Media Information Lab., NTT Communication Science Labs() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takaaki SUZUKI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Foreign Languages, Kyoto Sangyo University |
| Date | 2014-02-01 |
| Paper # | HCS2013-81 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 426 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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