韓国語ㆍ英語ㆍ中国語母語話者の 日本語文末表現の習得様相 – ノダ形式と終助詞を中心に –

Abstract

In the current study, we analyzed Japanese sentence final expression usage patterns in Korean, Chinese and English speaking learners specifically focusing on noda form and sentence final particles of Japanese polite forms found in KYcorpus (oral speech data). We analysed common features of learners who have different mother tongues. The results are summarized as follows. Usage of noda form by Korean, Chinese and English speaking learners occurs in the early stage of the Japanese sentence final expression learning process. These results suggest that conveying focused information, such as negative and past, is a priority, while the modality type related to politeness is disposed in the final sentence showing common features of conversational Japanese. Next, the affinity between noda form and verbal predicate is commonly recognized in Chinese and English speaking learners as well as in Korean learners. Learners tend to avoid the morphologically complex masu type in difficult verbal predicates in a polite form system and instead pursue a simplified tagging n-desu mechanically. Furthermore, Korean learners tend to use noda form more than English and Chinese learners. We speculate that these results relate to transfer of Korean sociolinguistic norms, which demand the use of a polite form system, rather than linguistic similarity between Japanese and Korean.