韓日国際児の日本語の習得過程 ―自動詞・他動詞と使役形を中心に―

Abstract

This paper examined the acquisition process of transitive verbs, intransitive verbs, and the causative forms by Korean-Japanese children. These processes were analyzed from the following three perspectives. First, the analysis focused on the acquisition process of each Korean-Japanese child; second, it investigated the overall tendency; and third, it examined the verbs with errors. The results demonstrated that, first, the acquisition period of Korean-Japanese children was much later than that of Japanese children. The likely cause is the morphological characteristics of transitive and intransitive verbs and the lack of Japanese input for Korean-Japanese children. Second, errors in the acquisition process were only evident in the third stage, which was almost the final stage. Finally, errors were seen in A-type verbs; C-type transitive verbs ending with -su, which is easily confused with the causative form; and two transitive verbs.