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Ohba, Akari; Deen, Kamil Ud – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
This article investigates the acquisition of empathy verbs in child Japanese, focusing on verbs of giving/receiving: "age-ru" 'give,' "kure-ru" 'give,' and "mora(w)-u" 'receive.' These verbs are distinguished by which argument the speaker empathizes with when describing an event. For "age-ru" 'give,' the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Japanese, Verbs, Language Acquisition
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Oshiro, Aiko; Pihl, Agneta; Peterson, Louise; Pramling, Niklas – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2017
How children understand the psychology of a story (i.e., the intentions and experiences of its characters) is pivotal to comprehending its point. In this study we investigate empirically how 5-year-old children in a Japanese kindergarten manage mental state verbs and adjectives when collaboratively retelling a tale heard. The tale, an example of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Verbs