Japanese Children's Knowledge of the Locality of "Zibun" and "Kare"

Autor/inn/en	Orita, Naho; Ono, Hajime; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey
Titel	Japanese Children's Knowledge of the Locality of "Zibun" and "Kare"
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 28 (2021) 4, S.327-343 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Orita, Naho) ORCID (Lidz, Jeffrey)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2021.1899181
Schlagwörter	Japanese; Form Classes (Languages); Language Acquisition; Speech Communication; Child Language; Error Analysis (Language); Context Effect; Phrase Structure; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Computational Linguistics; Task Analysis; Decision Making; Vignettes; Comparative Analysis; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Japaner; Japanisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Phrasenstruktur; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Aufgabenanalyse; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ausland
Abstract	Although the Japanese reflexive "zibun" can be bound both locally and across clause boundaries, the third-person pronoun "kare" cannot take a local antecedent. These are properties that children need to learn about their language, but we show that the direct evidence of the binding possibilities of "zibun" is sparse and the evidence of "kare" is absent in speech to children, leading us to ask about children's knowledge. We show that children, unlike adults, incorrectly reject the long-distance antecedent for "zibun," and while being able to access this antecedent for a non-local pronoun "kare," they consistently reject the local antecedent for this pronoun. These results suggest that children's lack of matrix readings for "zibun" is not due to their understanding of discourse context but the properties of their language understanding. (As Provided).
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