Prototype-effect in L2 acquisition of transitive constructions

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The objective of this cross-linguistic study is to examine whether L2 learners of Japanese are sensitive to verb transitivity when selecting case particles. I adopt a prototype-based view of acquisition where I also take L1 influence and overall language proficiency into account.The main achievement for the first year of this research is the data collected through surveys targeting Japanese language learners whose L1 is Vietnamese. This required composing a Japanese verb-list of around 600 commonly taught transitive verbs and their translation in Vietnamese and investigating their argument structure to construct the research questionnaire. Another achievement is a peer-reviewed article on the effect of prototypicality on Persian-speaking learners use of Japanese particles.