Native Japanese speakrs' acceptability judgment on combinations of verbs and case markers : A comparison between two different groups of participants

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  • Sakamoto Tsutomu
    Graduate School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University
  • Arao Hiroshi
    Hiroshima International University Faculty of Psychological Science Department of Kansei Design
  • Suwazono Shugo
    National Hospital Organization Okinawa National Hospital

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  • 自他動詞と格助詞の組合せに対する母語話者の容認性判断 : 異なる集団間の比較
  • ジタドウシ ト カクジョシ ノ クミアワセ ニ タイスル ボゴワシャ ノ ヨウニンセイ ハンダン コトナル シュウダン カン ノ ヒカク

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Abstract

In Japanese, some intransitive verbs have morphologically corresponding transitive verbs (e.g., fueru "increase," fuyasu "increase"). Generally, the subject of a sentence with intransitive verb is marked by the nominative -ga (e.g., Uriage-ga fueru. "The sales increase."), while the object of a sentence with transitive verb is marked by the accusative -o (e.g., Uriage-o fuyasu. "Someone increases the sales."). The acceptability is very low for their inverse combinations (e.g., Uriage-o fueru. Uriage-ga suyasu.). We examined the acceptability judgment of two different groups of participants on 800 sentences. They were required to rate the naturalness of each sentence on a 5-point scale. The results revealed that the acceptability judgment of both groups of participants was stable with respect to the more acceptable to the less acceptable sentences.

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  • 文學研究

    文學研究 108 31-48, 2011-03-01

    Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University

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