An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute: A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/ HTML Version(1997)

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II.4.14 A Morphological Analysis of Verbs, Adjectives and Predicative Nouns in Children's Speech from 3 to 6

(Report 55, 1975. 242 pages)
This book reports on a survey of the speech of pre-school children from a morphological perspective for the categories of verbs, adjectives and predicative nouns. We used the same data, Pre-School Children's Speech Transcription Cards, for this survey as were used in Report 50, The Development of Syntactic Structures in Children's Speech from 3 to 6. For this survey, we divided the speech data from the Pre-School Children's Speech Transcription Cards according to a conjugation table and the morphology used. In our design we proposed several new approaches for grammatical research on morphological arrangement, design of conjugation tables, etc. Results of this research indicated that by 3 and 4 years of age, children had acquired the morphology of verbs, adjectives and predicative nouns for the most part. TAKAHASI Taro~ directed and wrote the report for this survey. The following research reports are also relevant. SUZUKI Mituyo, "Syntactic Analysis of Pre-School Children's Use of the Nominal Case," 1975.

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