Abstract
This study investigates the acquisition of reduplicative onomatopoeia by Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese, focusing on their usage patterns and comprehension of adverbial ("onomatopoeia + verb") versus verbal ("onomatopoeia + suru") constructions. Participants were asked to complete a picture-based forced-choice task. Results showed that learners significantly preferred adverbial constructions over verbal ones, aligning with native speaker tendencies. Phonomimes exhibited higher accuracy in adverbial contexts, suggesting sound-symbolic transparency facilitates acquisition, while phenomimes showed greater variability due to state/action ambiguity in static visual stimuli.
https://ror.org/039pch476 
