Yamashita Yoshie    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Business Administration    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2005
Type	Bulletin of Universities and Institutes
Title	The emergence of syntactic categories: Verbal nouns vs. intransitive verbs
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal	Meiji University, Journal of Humanities
Volume, Issue, Page	11,pp.87-96
Details	The acquisition of verbal nouns and intransive verbs was examined based on the data from Japanese. The results indicate that verbal nouns which involve more than two arguments are acquired earlier than intransitive verbs with one argument, which seems to go against the universal word learning principles.