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Presentation 2014-08-12 10:30
Children's comprehension of the syntactic marker -- A study of Japanese case marker ga, wo --
Akiko Zhao Chou, Luo Yingyi, Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima Univ.) TL2014-13
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(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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(in English) syntactic marker / case marker ga, wo / input / verb-specific learning / verb-general learning / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 176, TL2014-13, pp. 7-12, Aug. 2014.
Paper # TL2014-13 
Date of Issue 2014-08-05 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2014-08-12 - 2014-08-13 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) The University of Tokyo (Komaba) 18 Bldg. Hall 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language 
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Conference Code 2014-08-TL 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Children's comprehension of the syntactic marker 
Sub Title (in English) A study of Japanese case marker ga, wo 
Keyword(1) syntactic marker  
Keyword(2) case marker ga, wo  
Keyword(3) input  
Keyword(4) verb-specific learning  
Keyword(5) verb-general learning  
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1st Author's Name Akiko Zhao Chou  
1st Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University (Hiroshima Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Luo Yingyi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University (Hiroshima Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hiromu Sakai  
3rd Author's Affiliation Hiroshima University (Hiroshima Univ.)
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Date Time 2014-08-12 10:30:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2014-13 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.176 
Page pp.7-12 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2014-08-05 (TL) 

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