Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics vii
4. Table of contents xxxv
5. Contributors xxxviii
6. Introduction: Japanese applied linguistics and this volume 1
7. I. First language (L1) acquisition/development
8. 1. The roles of cognitive bases and caregivers’ speech in early language development 17
9. 2. Literacy acquisition in Japanese children 43
10. II. Second language (L2) acquisition/development and bilingualism/multilingualism
11. 3. Age factors in language acquisition 67
12. 4. Cross-lingual transfer from L1 to L2 among school-age children 97
13. III. The teaching and learning of foreign languages
14. 5. Errors and learning strategies by learners of Japanese as a second language 129
15. 6. Adult L2 learners’ acquisition of style shift: The masu and plain forms 151
16. 7 Japanese language proficiency assessment with the Simple Performance-Oriented Test (SPOT) as a primary focus 175
17. 8. The role of instruction in acquiring Japanese as a second language 199
18. 9. The influence of topic choice on narrative proficiency by learners of Japanese as a foreign language 223
19. IV. Corpus linguistics
20. 10. CHILDES for Japanese: Corpora, programs, perspectives 255
21. 11. KY corpus 283
22. 12. Corpus-based second language acquisition research 313
23. V. Clinical linguistics
24. 13. Assessment of language development in children with hearing impairment and language disorders 337
25. 14. Revisiting autistic language: “Literalness” and “non-literalness” in Japanese children with autism 367
26. VI. Translation
27. 15. Towards a robust, genre-based translation model and its application 385
28. 16. Translation: A theoretical perspective 415
29. VII. Sign languages
30. 17. Japanese Sign Language: An introduction 443
31. 18. An information-based approach to the syllable formation of Japanese Sign Language 457
32. 19. Syntax of Japanese Sign Language 483
33. 20. Sign language development and language input 511
34. Subject index 531