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The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers : The Case of Japanese Children / Kasumi Yamamoto.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 27Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (213 p.) : Num. fig. and tabContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110183672
  • 9783110914955
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.6/019 22
LOC classification:
  • PL579 .Y36 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-X -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Previous acquisition research on numeral classifiers -- Chapter 3. Present study -- Chapter 4. General discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.

I-X -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Previous acquisition research on numeral classifiers -- Chapter 3. Present study -- Chapter 4. General discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

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The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children. It consists of two parts. First, it provides a general typological characterization of numeral classifier phrases and discusses problems in determining what constitutes the nature of classifiers. It also discusses the semantic properties of numeral classifiers based on an analysis of four languages from four different language families. Second, it examines the acquisitions of Japanese numeral classifiers by Japanese preschool children, ages 3 to 6, with a primary emphasis on the development of comprehension. The importance of the study is that it reveals that young children have a much greater sensitivity to the conceptual underpinnings of the numeral classifier system than was previously considered to be the case. The research results also provide a converging source of evidence that young children often come to initially grasp the structure of the world in ways that are better understood in cognitive than perceptual terms. The implications will contribute to not only the area of language acquisition but also categorization and conceptual development.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)