Knowledge of the Argument and Phrase Structure of Passives in Children with Hearing Impairments

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  • 聴覚障害児の受動文における統語知識 : 項構造と句構造を中心にして
  • チョウカク ショウガイジ ノ ジュドウブン ニ オケル トウゴ チシキ コウ コウゾウ ト ク コウゾウ オ チュウシン ニ シテ
  • Chokaku shogai ji no judo bun ni okeru togo chishiki [Knowledge of the argument and phrase structure of passives in children with hearing impairments]

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The present research examines the syntactic knowledge of passives in children with hearing impairments, focusing on their argument and phrase structure. Participants in the study were 90 children who were students in schools for children with hearing impairments. Three types of passives were used: direct passives, indirect passives with intransitive verbs, and passives with transitive verbs. The children were presented with pairs of pictures and sentences lacking noun phrases (that is, only verbs were presented). Then they were asked to complete those sentences by writing adequate noun phrases and casemarkers. The results were as follows: Although the percentages of correct sentences were below 50% in the three types of passives, and many errors of case-markers were observed, many sentences with correct argument structure were observed within those with case-marker errors. Moreover, there were sentences with correct argument structure and correct word order (in D structure) among those with case-marker errors. These results suggest that there are four different stages in the course of the acquisition of passives: the acquisition of (1) argument structure, (2) D structure, (3) S structure, and (4) case markers.

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