TABLE 2.

The Japanese Sentence Frames Used in the Test Phase

Testing with correlated linguistic cues

“Kore-wa hitotsu no____ da yo.” (“This is a ___.”) this-Top one[Numerical Classifier] Gen _____ is

“Hitotsu no ___-wa doko kana?” (“Where is a ___?”) one[Numerical Classifier] Gen ___-Top where Q

“Kore-wa sukoshi no____ da yo.” (“This is some ___.”) this-Top [Quantifier] Gen _____ is

“Sukoshi no ___-wa doko kana?” (“Where is some ___?”) [Quantifier] Gen ___-Top where Q

Testing without correlated linguistic cues

“Kore-wa ____ da yo.” (“This is ___.”) this-Top _____ is

“___-wa doko kana?” (“Where is ___?”)

___-Top where Q

Note. See Table 1 for an explanation of the postpositional particles wa and no.

Q = uestion marker.