The Acquisition of Word Order of Ditransitive Constructions Based on Typological Perspective
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.082How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- ditransitive constructions, order preferences, language acquisition, typological perspective
- Abstract
In this article, the researchers investigated children’s order preference of ditransitive constructions in Japanese, German, Mandarin and Cantonese based on typological conclusions. The researchers found consistency in order preferences between children and worldwide languages. ARTV (linear sequence of Agent-Recepient-Theme-Verb) was more preferred by children and most languages in the world than ATRV (linear sequence of Agent-Theme-Recepient-Verb); similarly, AVRT (linear sequence of Agent-Verb-Recepient-Theme) was more preferred by children and worldwide languages than AVTR (linear sequence of Agent-Verb-Theme-Recepient). It is believed that this consistency heralds the existence of general cognitive abilities and innate cognitive mechanisms. Besides, data indicated that language input was a necessary and inadequate condition for the acquisition of ditransitive order. Thus, the researchers hold the point that children gradually acquire the order of the ditransitive constructions in interactive use, and they are processing language knowledge from the input based on the general cognitive abilities and innate cognitive mechanisms.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yongxian Liang PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/28 TI - The Acquisition of Word Order of Ditransitive Constructions Based on Typological Perspective BT - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 412 EP - 416 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.082 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.082 ID - Liang2020 ER -