Mapping Issues of the Acquisition of L2 Japanese Aspect Markings by Chinese Learners

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2023-08

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Ohio State University. Libraries

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This paper considers how Chinese learners of Japanese (CLJs) acquire the L2 Japanese aspect marker -teiru in resultative and progressive contexts. It also analyzes the mapping mechanism of the lexical aspect to grammatical markers, with a special focus on achievement and accomplishment verbs. Despite the numerous observations on Chinese aspects (e.g., Dai 2021, Nishizaka 2019, and Sun 2010), only few studies dealt with the issue of acquiring L2 Japanese aspects by L1 Chinese learners. By using the Elicited Acceptability Judgment Test (EAJT) and analyzing the data individually, it was demonstrated that aspect markers corresponding to -teiru are building “one-to-many” rather than “one-to-one” relationships, and CLJs are learning the relationships through mapping while making errors due to other uses.

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Aspect hypothesis, achievement, accomplishment, Chinese learners of Japanese, mapping issue

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Fujii, Yuka. "Mapping Issues of the Acquisition of L2 Japanese Aspect Markings by Chinese Learners." Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, vol. 7 (August 2023), p. 52-59.