Early Acquisition of Copy & Movement in a Japanese OSV Sentence
Early Acquisition of Copy & Movement in a Japanese OSV Sentence
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2007
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T. Sano
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Thus, an OSV sentence seems to be properly generated in the early grammar of child Japanese. A further issue in the study of Japanese OSV acquisition is whether children’s grammar base-generates an OSV sentence as it is or derives it from an underlying SOV structure by movement, which leaves a copy of the Object phrase in the original position. I tackle this acquisition issue in this paper and argue that the latter option is correct. This paper is organized as follows. In section 2, following Kuroda (1980), I argue for the copy & movement analysis of Japanese OSV sentences in adult syntax. In section 3, I review a few previous studies which are relevant to our acquisition issue. In section 4, I report my experiment of L1 Japanese acquisition and argue that the results support the copy & movement analysis of OSV sentences in early child Japanese. In section 5, some theoretical implications of my finding are discussed. Section 6 concludes the paper.