Miyata Susanne, MacWhinney Brian, Otomo Kiyoshi, Sirai Hidetosi, Oshima-Takane Yuriko, Hirakawa Makiko, Shirai Yasuhiro, Sugiura Masatoshi, Itoh Keiko
Aichi Shukutoku University.
Carnegie Mellon University.
First Lang. 2013 Apr;33(2):200-216. doi: 10.1177/0142723713479436.
This paper reports on the development and use of the Developmental Sentence Scoring for Japanese (DSSJ), a new morpho-syntactical measure for Japanese constructed after the model of the English Developmental Sentence Scoring model (Lee, 1974). Using this measure, we calculated DSSJ scores for 84 children divided into six age groups between 2;8 and 5;2 on the basis of 100-sentence samples collected from free-play child-adult conversations. The analysis showed a high correlation of the DSSJ overall score with the Mean Length of Utterance. The analysis of the DSSJ subarea scores revealed large variations between these subarea scores for children with similar overall DSSJ scores. When investigating the high-scoring children (over 1 over group average), most children scored high in three to five subareas, but the combination of scores for these subareas varied from child to child. It is concluded that DSSJ is a valuable tool especially for the language acquisition research. The overall DSSJ score reliably reflects the overall morpho-syntactic development of Japanese children, and the subarea scores provide specific information on individual acquisition patterns.
本文报告了日语发展性句子评分（DSSJ）的开发与应用。DSSJ是一种新的日语形态句法测量方法，它是仿照英语发展性句子评分模型（Lee，1974）构建的。利用这一测量方法，我们根据从儿童与成人自由玩耍对话中收集的100个句子样本，计算了84名年龄在2岁8个月至5岁2个月之间、分为六个年龄组的儿童的DSSJ分数。分析表明，DSSJ总分与平均话语长度高度相关。对DSSJ子区域分数的分析显示，总体DSSJ分数相似的儿童，这些子区域分数之间存在很大差异。在调查高分儿童（超过组平均分1分以上）时，大多数儿童在三到五个子区域得分较高，但这些子区域的分数组合因儿童而异。得出的结论是，DSSJ是一种有价值的工具，尤其对于语言习得研究而言。DSSJ总分可靠地反映了日本儿童的总体形态句法发展，子区域分数提供了关于个体习得模式的具体信息。
