EAN: 9783110183672

THE ACQUISITION OF JAPANESE NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS...

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.

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