Acquisition of the English Dative Construction by the Japanese

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dc.contributor.authorYoshinaga, Naoko
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa. Department of English as a Second Language.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-15T01:00:21Z
dc.date.available2015-12-15T01:00:21Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the acquisition of the English dative constructions by Japanese speakers. The Thematic Core Theory (TCT) holds that the double object dative construction is subject to a possession constraint, a morphophonological constraint, and a narrow semantic constraint. Second language acquisition theory, based on the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis (SLA-TCT) predicts that Japanese speakers will succeed in acquiring the possession constraint but not the narrow semantic constraint. In a test of the possession and morphophonological constraints, 64 native English speakers (NSs) and 66 native speakers of Japanese (JPNs) were asked to rate the acceptability of dative constructions with novel verbs. A second experiment, NSs = 85, JPNs = 85) tested the nanow semantic constraint using both novel and real verbs. The data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA. The results supported the TCT and SLA-TCT. This suggests that universal grammar may not be available to adult learners oxcept through their native language.
dc.format.digitaloriginreformatted digital
dc.format.extent218 pages
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/38663
dc.languageeng
dc.relation.ispartofOccasional Paper #20
dc.subjectenglish morphology
dc.subjectsemantics
dc.subjectacquisition second language
dc.subject.fastSecond language acquisition
dc.subject.fastEnglish language--Morphology
dc.subject.fastEnglish language--Semantics
dc.titleAcquisition of the English Dative Construction by the Japanese
dc.typeOccasional Paper
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