Doctoral Dissertation Research: Children's Acquisition of Classifier Phrases and Numeral Classifiers in Vietnamese

博士论文研究：儿童对越南语分类词和数字分类词的习得

• 批准号: 0545268
• 负责人: Ann Peters
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Children; Acquisition

What strategies do children use in acquiring their native language? This project will be the first study of how children acquire Vietnamese, a language with a rich and complex classifier system. Under the direction of Dr. Ann Peters, Ms. Jennie Tran will trace the early syntactic development of classifier phrases by collecting longitudinal data from three children from monolingual families in Vietnam. Ms. Tran will also collect semi-controlled naturalistic data from 6 pairs of children, and elicited-production data from 36 children in a daycare center in Vietnam, focusing on the syntactic and semantic aspects of the numeral classifier system. The study will identify alternate strategies that children use in acquiring classifiers to determine whether there are universal strategies that exist despite language-specific differences in the order of nominal elements.The descriptive profile of the semantic development of Vietnamese classifiers will be a valuable source for cross-linguistic comparison. By providing insights into the difficulties children face, the errors they make, and the strategies they employ to acquire the classifier system, this project can help second language teachers of classifier languages develop more effective methods for teaching classifier systems to foreign learners. The project will contribute new child Vietnamese data (both naturalistic parent-child and child-child interactions) to the CHILDES data bank in electronic form so that it can be easily accessed, shared, and disseminated among language acquisition researchers.

孩子们在习得母语时使用什么策略？该项目将是第一个关于儿童如何习得越南语的研究，越南语是一种具有丰富而复杂的分类系统的语言。在 Ann Peters 博士的指导下，Jennie Tran 女士将通过收集来自越南单语家庭的三个孩子的纵向数据来追踪分类短语的早期句法发展。 Tran 女士还将收集 6 对儿童的半受控自然数据，以及越南日托中心 36 名儿童的诱导生产数据，重点关注数字分类器系统的句法和语义方面。该研究将确定儿童在获取分类词时使用的替代策略，以确定是否存在通用策略，尽管特定语言的名词元素顺序存在差异。越南语分类词语义发展的描述性概况将是跨语言比较的宝贵来源。通过深入了解儿童面临的困难、他们所犯的错误以及他们为获得分类器系统而采用的策略，该项目可以帮助分类器语言的第二语言教师开发更有效的方法来向外国学习者教授分类器系统。该项目将以电子形式向 CHILDES 数据库提供新的儿童越南语数据（包括自然亲子互动和儿童互动），以便语言习得研究人员可以轻松访问、共享和传播这些数据。