Syntactic Cues for Inferences about Causality in Language Acquisition: Evidence from an Argument-Drop Language
Syntactic Cues for Inferences about Causality in Language Acquisition: Evidence from an Argument-Drop Language
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语言习得中因果关系推理的句法线索：来自参数删除语言的证据
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2017
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Tessei Kobayashi
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Takaaki Suzuki;Tessei Kobayashi
句法引导有助于儿童基于句法信息对动词意义的初步学习。一个具有挑战性的情况是参数省略语言，其中参数np的数量不是区分及物动词和不及物动词的可靠线索。尽管如此，日语中句法引导的可用性（Matsuo et al., 2012）表明，区分大小写的小词在识别动词及物性方面发挥了作用。本研究探讨了2岁的日语儿童是否使用格标记线索和典型的及物/不及物框架来推断新动词的意义。多式联运优先注视范式的结果表明，即使只提供一个带有宾格的直接宾语，它们也会产生及物-使役关联。这表明孩子们可以利用格标记作为动词及物性的线索。我们认为所有这些发现都为日语句法引导的有效性及其在语言习得中的普遍性提供了支持。
ABSTRACT Syntactic bootstrapping facilitates children’s initial learning of verb meanings based on syntactic information. A challenging case is the argument-drop languages, where the number of argument NPs is not a reliable cue for distinguishing between transitive and intransitive verbs. Despite this fact, the availability of syntactic bootstrapping in Japanese (Matsuo et al., 2012) implies that case-marking particles play a role in the identification of a verb’s transitivity. This study investigates whether Japanese-speaking 2-year-olds infer the meaning of novel verbs using case-marking cues as well as typical transitive/intransitive frames. The results of the intermodal preferential looking paradigm showed that they made transitive-causative association, even when only a direct object marked with the accusative case was provided. This indicates that children can utilize case markers as cues to a verb’s transitivity. We suggest that all these discoveries provide support for the availability of syntactic bootstrapping in Japanese and its universality in language acquisition.