Developmental process of children's meta-linguistic awareness on the difference between standard and dialectal Japanese.

本研究旨在开发一种揭示日本北部地区儿童元语言意识发展水平的方法论方法，并阐明日语方言与标准日语之间代码转换能力的元语用能力发展过程。根据发展事实，我们还旨在发展一种语言社会化理论。本研究从以下三个方面对儿童语言使用的发展过程进行了研究：(1)实验情境下元语言意识的发展；(2)自然语篇中体裁转换的发展；(3)培养元语用意识的实验教学。

This research aimed at developing a methodological techniques for revealing developmental level of children's meta-linguistic awareness and explicating the meta-pragmatic development process for code switching ability between standard and dialectal Japanese in northern area of Japan. According to the developmental facts, we also aimed at developing a theory of language socialization. we focused on the following three aspects of developmental process in child language use :(1) development of meta-linguistic awareness in experimental situation ;(2) development of genre switching in natural discourses ;(3) experimental education for shaping of meta-pragmatic awareness on linguistic diversity.