Yamashita Yoshie
Department Undergraduate School , School of Business Administration Position Professor |
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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. |