A Cognitive Study on the Acquisition of Argument Ellipsis:The View from Child Japanese and Child English

论元省略习得的认知研究：儿童日语和儿童英语的视角

• 批准号: 23720248
• 负责人: SUGISAKI Koji
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Mie University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2011 至 2012
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23720248/
• 关键词: 生成文法; 言語獲得; 普遍文法; 項削除; パラメータ; 母語獲得

According to the syntactic literature, one of the major properties that distinguish Japanese from languages like English or Spanish is the availability of Argument Ellipsis. In light of this theoretical background, this study investigated experimentally whether Japanese-speaking preschool children have fully adult-like knowledge of Argument Ellipsis. More specifically, this study conducted experiments to determine whether children obey the following two constraints on Argument Ellipsis: (A) Wh-phrases cannot undergo Argument Ellipsis, (B) Adjuncts cannot be elided. The results of my experiments revealed that children conform to these constraints from the earliest observable stages.The findings of this study lend acquisitional support for the parametric proposals made by Oku (1998), Saito (2007), and Takahashi (2008) (among others) that the availability of Argument Ellipsis in Japanese is closely tied to other prominent characteristics of this language, such as scrambling or the absence of overt agreement. A broader implication of this study is that child language acquisition provides an important ground to evaluate theories of cross-linguistic variation.

根据句法文献，日语区别于英语或西班牙语等语言的主要特征之一是可以使用论元省略。基于这一理论背景，本研究通过实验考察了日语学龄前儿童是否具有完全成人化的论元省略知识。具体来说，本研究通过实验来确定儿童是否遵守以下两个关于论元省略的限制条件：（A）WH-短语不能进行论元省略;（B）附加词不能省略。实验结果表明，儿童从最早的观察阶段就遵守这些限制。本研究的结果为Oku（1998），Saito（2007）和Takahashi（2008）提出的参数建议提供了获得支持日语中的论元省略的可用性与日语的其他突出特征密切相关，例如混乱或缺乏公开协议。这项研究的一个更广泛的含义是，儿童语言习得提供了一个重要的理由来评估跨语言变异理论。

项目成果

In Proceedings of the 37th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

第 37 届波士顿大学语言发展年度会议论文集

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: The Ban on Adjunct Ellipsis in Child Japanese
• 作者: Sarah Baiz;Nora Goldman;and Rachel Hawkes
• 通讯作者: and Rachel Hawkes

The Ban on Adjunct Ellipsis in Child Japanese

儿童日语中附加省略号的禁令

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Sugisaki;Koji
• 通讯作者: Koji

The Acquisition of Argument Ellipsis and its Constraints in Japanese.

日语中论元省略的习得及其制约因素。

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Sugisaki;Koji
• 通讯作者: Koji