The Acquisition of Verbal Inflection by L2 Learners of Japanese

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  • 日本語学習者による動詞活用の習得について
  • 日本語学習者による動詞活用の習得について--造語動詞と実在動詞による調査結果から
  • ニホンゴ ガクシュウシャ ニ ヨル ドウシ カツヨウ ノ シュウトク ニ ツイテ ゾウゴ ドウシ ト ジツザイ ドウシ ニ ヨル チョウサ ケッカ カラ
  • ――造語動詞と実在動詞による調査結果から――
  • Evidence from Nonce Verb and Real Verb Tests

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<p>The purpose of this study is to examine whether the Japanese verbal inflection system emerges from item-based learning or rule learning. Using the same made-up verb tests as Klafehn (2003) and real verb tests we investigated the acquisition of Japanese verb conjugation by 41 intermediate learners of Japanese (L1; Mongol, Chinese, and Korean).</p><p>The results indicated that scores for real verbs were significantly higher than those for nonce verbs and that as the groups' proficiency increased, their scores increased. This means that higher-level learners showed native-like performance in real verb tests (94%), but a discrepancy from Klafehn's JNS in nonce tests (77%). Also, the lower-level group showed the worst score in real verb tests (80%) but the closest score to JNS in nonce items (59%). In addition, kap-u, the most dissimilar verb to real verbs, showed significantly lower accuracy than other nonce verbs (hom-u, hok-u, mur-u), which implies that there is a similarity effect. Our findings suggest that L2 development in verb inflection differs from that of JNS and that this affects both rote learning and explicit rule learning.</p>

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