Acquisition of Japanese Vocabulary by Chinese Background Learners
Toshihito Kato
Broschiertes Buch

Acquisition of Japanese Vocabulary by Chinese Background Learners

The Roles of Transfer in the Productive and Receptive Acquisition of Cognates and Polysemy

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As is widely known, Japanese and Chinese not only share the common logographic orthography called kanji or hanzi respectively, but also share a number of kanji compounds as cognates, many of which share the same or similar meaning. The major objective of this research is to investigate the roles of transfer and the difficulty in Chinese background learners use and acquisition of Japanese kanji compounds and kanji words. In particular, under what condition and how do CBLs transfer Chinese words into Japanese counterparts is investigated. The findings indicate that the transferability of Chinese...