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Chapter 11. An experimental study of children’s comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese

  • Kyoko Yamakoshi , Kaori Miura , Hanako Jorinbo , Kayoko Angata und Kaori Yamasaki
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Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics
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Abstract

This article experimentally investigates children’s comprehension of causative constructions in Japanese and compares the acquisition of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese. The results of our experiments show that children correctly comprehend direct causative meanings of lexical causative verbs quite early, but that they often misinterpret indirect causative meanings of productive causatives, which suggests that the acquisition of indirect causative meanings of productive causatives is delayed. We suggest the delay of the acquisition of productive causatives is due to children’s misplacement of the causative morpheme sase in the structure of productive causatives, which is compatible with the analysis of children’s natural speech data in Murasugi and Hashimoto (2004) and Murasugi, Hashimoto and Fuji (2007).

Abstract

This article experimentally investigates children’s comprehension of causative constructions in Japanese and compares the acquisition of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese. The results of our experiments show that children correctly comprehend direct causative meanings of lexical causative verbs quite early, but that they often misinterpret indirect causative meanings of productive causatives, which suggests that the acquisition of indirect causative meanings of productive causatives is delayed. We suggest the delay of the acquisition of productive causatives is due to children’s misplacement of the causative morpheme sase in the structure of productive causatives, which is compatible with the analysis of children’s natural speech data in Murasugi and Hashimoto (2004) and Murasugi, Hashimoto and Fuji (2007).

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  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. List of works by John B. Whitman xiii
  5. Part I. Syntax and morphology
  6. Chapter 1. On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese 3
  7. Chapter 2. The syntactic status of by -phrases in Korean and Japanese 23
  8. Chapter 3. Displaced modification 45
  9. Chapter 4. Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala 73
  10. Chapter 5. Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese 97
  11. Part II. Interfaces
  12. Chapter 6. On the distribution of the discourse particles - yo in Korean and - ne in Japanese 125
  13. Chapter 7. Wh- indefinites in East Asian languages 139
  14. Part III. Diachrony
  15. Chapter 8. Resultative and termination 157
  16. Chapter 9. Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese 181
  17. Chapter 10. Possessive nominal phrases in Lamaholot 207
  18. Part IV. Psycholinguistics
  19. Chapter 11. An experimental study of children’s comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese 229
  20. Chapter 12. Parsing Chinese relative clauses with structural and non-structural cues 253
  21. Part V. Phonology
  22. Chapter 13. The inexorable spread of 〈ou〉 in Romanized Japanese 287
  23. Chapter 14. Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean 303
  24. Chapter 15. The role of perceived similarity and contrast 331
  25. Chapter 16. The status of schwa in Indonesian 343
  26. Chapter 17. Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai 371
  27. Subject index 387
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.250.12yam

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. List of works by John B. Whitman xiii
  5. Part I. Syntax and morphology
  6. Chapter 1. On complement selection in Spanish and Japanese 3
  7. Chapter 2. The syntactic status of by -phrases in Korean and Japanese 23
  8. Chapter 3. Displaced modification 45
  9. Chapter 4. Some asymmetries of long distance scope assignment in Sinhala 73
  10. Chapter 5. Autosegmental evaluative morphology in Japanese 97
  11. Part II. Interfaces
  12. Chapter 6. On the distribution of the discourse particles - yo in Korean and - ne in Japanese 125
  13. Chapter 7. Wh- indefinites in East Asian languages 139
  14. Part III. Diachrony
  15. Chapter 8. Resultative and termination 157
  16. Chapter 9. Differential argument marking and object movement in Old Japanese 181
  17. Chapter 10. Possessive nominal phrases in Lamaholot 207
  18. Part IV. Psycholinguistics
  19. Chapter 11. An experimental study of children’s comprehension of lexical and productive causatives in Japanese 229
  20. Chapter 12. Parsing Chinese relative clauses with structural and non-structural cues 253
  21. Part V. Phonology
  22. Chapter 13. The inexorable spread of 〈ou〉 in Romanized Japanese 287
  23. Chapter 14. Loanword accent of Kyungsang Korean 303
  24. Chapter 15. The role of perceived similarity and contrast 331
  25. Chapter 16. The status of schwa in Indonesian 343
  26. Chapter 17. Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai 371
  27. Subject index 387
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