Ayumi Matsuo

Datos Biográficos

ID3851332
NOMBREAyumi Matsuo
NOMBRESAyumi
APELLIDOMatsuo
FIRMAMATSUO A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Sheffield
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • From Noun Bias to Verb Sensitivity

    Open AccessAyumi Matsuo, Tamiko Ogura et al.ARTICLELanguages2026

    This paper examines whether noun bias serves as an early default mechanism in lexical acquisition among Japanese toddlers, despite Japanese being categorized as a “verb-friendly” language. In Experiment 1, using two complementary methods—the Japanese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory and an Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL) study—we investigated developmental changes in word-mapping tendencies among two age groups of Japanes…

  • Japanese two-year-olds use morphosyntax to learn novel verb meanings

    Open AccessAyumi Matsuo, Sachiko Kita et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    Previous research has found that children who are acquiring argument-drop languages such as Turkish and Chinese make use of syntactic frames to extend familiar verb meanings (Göksun, Küntay & Naigles, 2008; Lee & Naigles, 2008). This article investigates whether two-year-olds learning Japanese, another argument-drop language, make use of argument number and case markings in learning novel verbs. Children watched videos of novel causative and non-…

  • Factoring out the parallelism effect in VP-ellipsis

    Open AccessNigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo et al.ARTICLESecond language Research2009Referencias: 3

    Previous studies, including Duffield and Matsuo (2001; 2002; 2009), have demonstrated second language learners’ overall sensitivity to a parallelism constraint governing English VP-ellipsis constructions: like native speakers (NS), advanced Dutch, Spanish and Japanese learners of English reliably prefer ellipsis clauses with structurally parallel antecedents over those with non-parallel antecedents. However, these studies also suggest that, in co…

  • Young children's understanding of ongoing vs. completion in imperfective and perfective participles

    Open AccessAyumi MatsuoARTICLELinguistics2009Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    This article investigates how English-speaking children interpret imperfective and perfective participles used attributively in a prenominal position, as in ‘burning/burned candle’. These participles exhibit a pure aspectual distinction between ongoing and completion that is independent of the temporal entailments contributed by a finite verb. This article reports results from 45 children (1;6–6;8) who participated in an experiment investigating …

  • Acceptable ungrammaticality in sentence matching

    Open AccessNigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo et al.ARTICLESecond language Research2007Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    This article presents a new set of experiments using the sentence-matching paradigm (Forster, 1979; Freedman and Forster, 1985; see also Bley-Vroman and Masterson, 1989), investigating native speakers' and second language (L2) learners' knowledge of constraints on clitic placement in French. Our purpose is three-fold: • to shed more light on the contrasts between native speakers and L2 learners observed in previous experiments, especially Duffiel…

  • Effects of semantic and syntactic complexities and aspectual class on past tense production

    Open AccessAyumi MatsuoARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2003

    This paper reports results from a series of experiments that investigated whether semantic and/or syntactic complexity influences young Dutch children’s production of past tense forms. The constructions used in the three experiments were (i) simple sentences (the Simple Sentence Experiment), (ii) complex sentences with CP complements (the Complement Clause Experiment) and (iii) complex sentences with relative clauses (the Relative Clause Experime…

  • Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar

    Ayumi MatsuoARTICLELinguistic Inquiry1999Referencias: 3

    April 01 1999 Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar In Special Collection: CogNet Ayumi Matsuo Ayumi Matsuo University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ayumi Matsuo University of Connecticut Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1999 Linguistic Inquiry (1999) 30 (2): 310–317. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438999…