Acquisition of Transitive-Intransitive Verb Pairs by Hindi Speaking Learners of Japanese

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  • ヒンディー語を母語とする日本語学習者における対のある自他動詞の習得について
  • ヒンディー語を母語とする日本語学習者における対のある自他動詞の習得について : 助詞選択と述語選択に関する誤用を中心に
  • ヒンディーゴ オ ボゴ ト スル ニホンゴ ガクシュウシャ ニ オケル ツイ ノ アル ジタ ドウシ ノ シュウトク ニ ツイテ : ジョシ センタク ト ジュツゴ センタク ニ カンスル ゴヨウ オ チュウシン ニ
  • Focusing on Errors in Predicate and Particle Selection
  • ―助詞選択と述語選択に関する誤用を中心に―

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<p>This study analyses usage and error patterns of transitive-intransitive verb pairs produced by Hindi speaking learners of Japanese. Learners were divided into three groups based on the duration of learning Japanese. The results show that learners in the lower group made more errors related to predicate selection whereas errors concerning particle selection were relatively frequent in the intermediate group. Learners in the upper group not only made fewer errors, but these errors were not concentrated in any one error type; errors related to voice were almost as frequent as those related to predicate and particle selection. In other words, error patterns seem to change with time from errors concerning word selection (lower group) → errors related to particle selection (intermediate group) → errors related to creating grammatically and semantically sound sentences (upper group). This corroborates with the observations made in previous studies. However, when errors were analyzed separately for transitive and intransitive verbs, only transitive verbs displayed the above progression pattern. Errors related to intransitive verbs tended to concentrate on verb selection errors in all three groups, indicating that acquisition of vocabulary does not necessarily precede acquisition of particles. One possible cause of over-use of intransitive verbs may be attributed to mother tongue influence.</p>

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