Floating Numeral Quantifiers as an Unaccusative Diagnostic in Native, Heritage, and L2 Japanese Speakers

Autor/in	Fukuda, Shin
Titel	Floating Numeral Quantifiers as an Unaccusative Diagnostic in Native, Heritage, and L2 Japanese Speakers
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 24 (2017) 3, S.169-208 (40 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2016.1179742
Schlagwörter	Japanese; Second Language Learning; Form Classes (Languages); Language Research; Native Language; Heritage Education; Grammar; Language Acquisition; Contrastive Linguistics; Language Tests; Diagnostic Tests; Prediction; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Surveys; Hawaii + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Japaner; Japanisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachforschung; Grammatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Language test; Sprachtest; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Vorhersage; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	This study investigates the knowledge of unaccusativity in Japanese native, heritage, and second/foreign language speakers with respect to licensing of floating numeral quantifiers (FNQs) by unaccusative and unergative subjects (the "FNQ diagnostic"). Two acceptability judgment experiments were conducted to examine (i) whether and how judgments of the three populations differ with respect to the FNQ paradigm and (ii) whether and how manipulations of agentivity of subjects and telicity of events affect their judgments of the FNQ diagnostic. Our findings show that (i) the native and heritage speakers' knowledge about the FNQ diagnostic are largely indistinguishable from each other, (ii) some L2 speakers' judgments show signs of initial development of the knowledge of the FNQ diagnostic, and (iii) telicity shows clear effects on the FNQ diagnostic with all three groups, while the effects of agentivity are subtle and detectible only with the native and heritage speakers. (As Provided).
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