Developmental study of the comprehension of giving and receiving sentepces in Japanese children

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  • Ishiguro Hiroaki
    Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

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  • 日本語児における授受動詞構文理解の発達的研究
  • ニホンゴジ ニ オケル ジュジュ ドウシ コウブン リカイ ノ ハッタツテキ ケンキュウ--カク ト シテン
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To examine the comprehension of Japanese giving and receiving sentences in children, 43 nursery school children, age ranging from 3:5 to 6:0, were asked to perform an act-out task that requires the understanding of simple giving and receiving sentences. The results indicate the tendency that the semantic interpretation of “NPga-(NPo)-NPni-ageru (give) sentence form” was applied to all other sentences in each age group. Children appeared to use word-order strategy and source-as-point-of-view strategy at the same time. It was also suggested that older children, who could utilize particles as cue to comprehend sentences, did not use word-order strategy as much as younger children did.

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