The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers

The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9783110914955
ISBN-13 : 3110914956
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Book Synopsis The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers by : Kasumi Yamamoto

Download or read book The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers written by Kasumi Yamamoto and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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