| Presentation | 2014-08-12 Children's comprehension of the syntactic marker : A study of Japanese case marker ga, wo Akiko ZHAOCHOU, Yinyi LUO, Hiromu SAKAI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In this study we investigated how Japanese children acquire the syntactic case markers in their native language, i.e., ga and wo. Particularly we focused on the question of whether the learning process of ga, wo is verb-specific or verb-general. Previous research reported that 2 years old children managed to use case marker in spontaneous speech but showed difficulties in understanding the sentences with them under laboratory circumstance, implying a verb-specific process of acquiring the knowledge of case markers (Tomasello, 2000). We therefor expected to observe: a. incapability of understanding sentences with ga and wo for children at the age of 2 years. The results showed that 2-3 years old children accomplished the forced-choice task at a chance level, suggesting that the syntactic knowledge of the case markers has not been acquired at this age. Children were able to correctly respond to the sentences with ga until 4 years old, and to the sentences with wo even later until 5 years old. From this result our data indicates that the thematic/syntactic knowledge of the case markers are likely to be acquired gradually during 4 to 5 years old on a verb-specific basis. |
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| Keyword(in English) | syntactic marker / case marker ga / wo / input / verb-specific learning / verb-general learning |
| Paper # | TL2014-13 |
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| Conference Date | 2014/8/5(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Children's comprehension of the syntactic marker : A study of Japanese case marker ga, wo |
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| Keyword(1) | syntactic marker |
| Keyword(2) | case marker ga |
| Keyword(3) | wo |
| Keyword(4) | input |
| Keyword(5) | verb-specific learning |
| Keyword(6) | verb-general learning |
| 1st Author's Name | Akiko ZHAOCHOU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Hiroshima University:Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Yinyi LUO |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Hiroshima University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Hiromu SAKAI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Hiroshima University |
| Date | 2014-08-12 |
| Paper # | TL2014-13 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.114 |
| Number (no) | 176 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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