Cross-linguistic relations between quantifiers and numerals in language acquisition: Evidence from Japanese
Cross-linguistic relations between quantifiers and numerals in language acquisition: Evidence from Japanese
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jecp.2008.12.001
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Takasaki, Mayu
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作者：
Barner, David;Libenson, Amanda;Takasaki, Mayu
对104个讲日语的2至5岁儿童的研究测试了数字和量词获取之间的关系。第一项研究评估了日本儿童对量词，数字和分类器的理解。相对于说英语的同行，日本儿童在2岁时被延迟了数字理解，但在3岁和4岁时没有差异。此外，日本2岁的孩子对量词有更好的理解，表明其延迟是针对数字的。一项研究检查了日本和英国护理人员的讲话，以探讨可能影响整数获取的句法线索。量词和数字在类似的句法位置发生，英语重叠到比日语更大的英语程度。此外，日本名词经常被删除，量词和数字都相对于它们修改的名词表现出可变位置。我们得出的结论是，英语中的句法提示有助于量化含义的自举数字含义，并且这种提示在分类器语言（例如日语）中的数字含义较弱。 （c）2008 Elsevier Inc.保留所有权利。
A study of 104 Japanese-speaking 2- to 5-year-olds tested the relation between numeral and quantifier acquisition. A first study assessed Japanese children's comprehension of quantifiers, numerals, and classifiers. Relative to English-speaking counterparts, Japanese children were delayed in numeral comprehension at 2 years of age but showed no difference at 3 and 4 years of age. Also, Japanese 2-year-olds had better comprehension of quantifiers, indicating that their delay was specific to numerals. A second study examined the speech of Japanese and English caregivers to explore the syntactic cues that might affect integer acquisition. Quantifiers and numerals occurred in similar syntactic positions and overlapped to a greater degree in English than in Japanese. Also, Japanese nouns were often dropped, and both quantifiers and numerals exhibited variable positions relative to the nouns they modified. We conclude that syntactic cues in English facilitate bootstrapping numeral meanings from quantifier meanings and that such cues are weaker in classifier languages such as Japanese. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.