Children's knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure: quantifier floating in Japanese*
Children's knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure: quantifier floating in Japanese*
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儿童层次短语结构知识：日语中漂浮的量词*
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10.1017/s0305000912000190
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2012
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2.2
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N. Yoshinaga
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Takaaki Suzuki;N. Yoshinaga
摘要日语中浮动量词的解释需要了解层级短语结构。然而，正如我们的分析所表明的那样，对儿童的投入不足，甚至具有误导性。这就提出了一个关于可学习性的有趣问题：儿童是根据输入中不明显的结构依赖规则来解释浮动量词，还是使用基于可用输入的句子理解策略？两个实验考察了4-6岁说日语的儿童对SOV和OSV句子中浮动量词的理解。结果表明，没有儿童使用成分线性排序的理解策略，当词序难度降低时，大多数五岁和六岁儿童正确地解释了浮动量词。这些事实表明，儿童对浮动量词的理解在结构上依赖于层级短语结构，这表明尽管儿童可以获得的输入不足，但这种知识是儿童语法的一部分。
Abstract The interpretation of floating quantifiers in Japanese requires knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure. However, the input to children is insufficient or even misleading, as our analysis indicates. This presents an intriguing question on learnability: do children interpret floating quantifiers based on a structure-dependent rule which is not obvious in the input or do they employ a sentence comprehension strategy based on the available input? Two experiments examined four- to six-year-old Japanese-speaking children for their interpretations of floating quantifiers in SOV and OSV sentences. The results revealed that no child employed a comprehension strategy in terms of the linear ordering of constituents, and most five- and six-year-olds correctly interpreted floating quantifiers when word-order difficulty was reduced. These facts indicate that children's interpretation of floating quantifiers is structurally dependent on hierarchical phrase structure, suggesting that this knowledge is a part of children's grammar despite the insufficient input available to them.
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