Early Acquisition of Basic Word Order in Japanese

Sugisaki, Koji

doi:10.1080/10489220802142441

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“…The SOV structure, more than other structures, provide evidence for this claim that children are sensitive to the standard structure of their own languages, which is consistent with the previous report by Sugiasaki and Koji [12]. Bates demonstrated that Italian-speaking children produced SOV more frequently than any other structures [9].…”

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Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children

Jalilevand

Kamali

Modarresi

et al. 2017

IRJ

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Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods:In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio-recorded during free play with an examiner and during description of pictures.Results: Object-Verb (OV) and subject-verb (SV) sentence structures were the most commonly used in two-component simple sentences. SOV was the most common three-component structures used by Persian-speaking children.Discussion: Despite the fact that the spoken-Persian language has no strict word order, Persianspeaking children tend to use other logically possible orders of subject (S), verb (V), and object (O) lesser than the SOV structure.

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“…Sugisaki & Koji, investigated the early acquisition of basic word order in Japanese and suggested that Japanese children were sensitive to the basic word order even though Japanese is a free word order language [12].…”

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Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children

Jalilevand

Kamali

Modarresi

et al. 2017

IRJ

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“…Identification of other patterns depend on their difference with respect to the canonical patters. For example, in a recent study in Japanese, a free word order language, Sugisaki (2008) observed emergence of the basic word order first in young Japanese child's utterances. However, currently there is no such data in Hindi to support this conclusion.…”

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Revisiting the scrambling complexity hypothesis in sentence processing: a self-paced reading study on anomaly detection and scrambling in Hindi

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The scrambling complexity hypothesis based on working memory or locality accounts as well as syntactic accounts have proposed that processing a scrambled structure is difficult. However, the locus of this difficulty in sentence processing remains debatable. Several studies on multiple languages have explored the effect of scrambling on sentence processing and not all languages have shown an advantage for the canonical word order. Using a self-paced reading paradigm, we studied the effect of scrambling on semantic anomaly detection in Hindi sentence comprehension employing three word order types. Reading times on critical verbs, judgment latency, and error rates showed significant effect of word order type. The results further revealed significant interactions between word order and anomaly type. The patterns of results suggest that the canonical word order does not necessarily have a processing advantage in terms of speed and accuracy over non-canonical orders and do not provide support to sentence processing accounts that assume an advantage for canonical structures. The results indicate that processing speed depends on the distance between the subject and the verb, thus supporting a locality dependent working memory based model of sentence processing. The results provide evidence for the role of specific cognitive processes in Hindi sentence processing with further implications for language and literacy acquisition in Hindi.

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“…as soon as the child starts producing the Verb and its complement (about 18 months old according to Wexler, 1998), and that the word order does not fluctuate (for the OV order, De Haan, 1987 for Dutch; Poeppel and Wexler, 1993 for German;Sugisaki, 2005 for Japanese; for the VO order, Bloom, 1970;Brown, 1973;Lebeaux, 1989, for English). Thus, it can be concluded that the child requires an extremely short period of time (less than several months) for setting head-direction and acquiring scrambling, and that s/he does so at an extremely young age (before or at around the age of two).…”

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“…Nevertheless, these word orders are not possible inside the embedded clause, and moreover, the dislocated phrases, S and O respectively, cannot be wh-phrases(Sugisaki, 2005).9 For declarative sentences, the main stress was placed on the phrase immediately preceding the verb, following the ''nuclear stress rule''. For wh-questions, we followed the ''additional stress assignment and deaccenting'' rules, where the wh-word received an additional stress and the rest of the words were deaccented.…”

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