Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.11a
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- Pages.471-480
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- 2007
What L2 Learners' Processing Strategy Reveals about the Modal System in Japanese: A Cue-based Analytical Perspective
- Tamaji, Mizuho (Takamatsu University, Tohoku University) ;
- Horie, Kaoru (Takamatsu University, Tohoku University)
- Published : 2007.11.01
Abstract
Japanese does not exhibit deontic-epistemic polysemy which is recognized among typologically different languages. Hence, in Japanese linguistics, it has been debated which of the two types of modality is more prototypical. This study brings Chinese learner's acquisition data of Japanese modality to bear on the question of which of the two types of modality is more prototypical, using the Competition Model (Bates and MacWhinney 1981). The Competition Model notion of 'cues' as processing strategy adopted by learners reveals the continuity/discontinuity between these two modality domains.