Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese

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Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese

Edited by: Shigenori Wakabayashi

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2003

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Volume 20 | Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

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This book is a collection of eight articles by leading scholars investigating of the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. It deals with a wide range of topics from the acquisiton of VP structures to functional categories and presents new empirical data. The studies all contribute to our understanding of these topics, and they are of current interest to researchers working on Second Language Acquisition.

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Shigenori Wakabayashi is Professor at the Gunmar Prefectural Women's University, Gunmar Japan.

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? Shigenori Wakabayashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I: VP structures
Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs Shunji Inagaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English Makiko Hirakawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
II: Functional categories
The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage Koji Suda and Shigenori Wakabayashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English Tomohiko Shirahata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars Hiromasa Ohba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English Chieko Kuribara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
III: New empirical data
Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions Shigenori Wakabayashi and Izumi Okawara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest Yuichi Tomita, Kazuhiko Fukuda and Natsuko Tatsuta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267

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July 11, 2011

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9783110892468

Hardcover published on:

December 13, 2002

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110176599

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Reprint 2011

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8

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277

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892468

eBook ISBN: 9783110892468

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110176599

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Spracherwerb; Japanisch /Sprache

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Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese

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