Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification

Pérez‐Leroux, Ana Teresa

doi:10.1075/cilt.360.02per

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“…Our review of the previous literature suggests that simple use of modifiers ( no ) and of relative clauses enter the speech of young Japanese children very early. While there is no documentation on initial use of recursive structures in Japanese, studies from other languages indicate that children first start to use recursive descriptions around the age of four (Pérez-Leroux et al 2012, Roberge et al 2018, Giblin et al 2018, for English; Roberge et al 2018, for French; Pérez-Leroux (2022), for Spanish; Pérez-Leroux et al 2021, for German). In these studies, many four-year-old children still do not produce any form of recursive modification, but rates grow substantively over time.…”

Section: On の (No)mentioning

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On the L1 acquisition of recursive no in Japanese

et al. 2023

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This article investigates the emergence of recursive DPs in child language. In certain languages, DP modification can be achieved via diverse structures and any number of different embedding markers (prepositions, particles, case-marker, etc.), each having to be learned; this diversity may impact the L1 development of recursive DP modification. Japanese, in contrast, relies on two uniform unrestricted strategies: the adnominal particle の (no) or a relative clause. We report the results of an elicited production study comparing the production of recursive DPs in Japanese-speaking children and adults. Our results show that Japanese children were much like adults in the types of semantic modificational relations that elicited the most target responses. Children were different from adults in that they were: a) much less successful overall, and b) they preferred no, independently of whether the condition was biased toward no. We review the implications of these findings for analyses of no.

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