TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yamamoto,Kasumi
TI  - The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers: The Case of Japanese Children 
T2  - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ,
SN  - 9783110183672
AV  - PL579 .Y36 2005eb
U1  - 495.6/019 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Japanese language
KW  - Classifiers
KW  - Numerals
KW  - Language acquisition
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Japanisch /Sprache
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914955
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110914955
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110914955/original
ER  -