LINGUIST List 14.938

Mon Mar 31 2003

Books: Lang Acquisition, Jap/Eng: Wakabayashi (ed)

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Title: Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native
 Speakers of Japanese
Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter 
 http://www.degruyter.com		 
			
Editor: Shigenory Wakabayashi, Professor at the Gunmar Prefectural
	Women's University, Gunmar, Japan

Hardback: ISBN: 3110176599, Pages: viii, 277, Price: Euro 98.00 /sFr
	 157,- /approx. US$ 98.00
			
Abstract:

This book consists of eight articles by leading scholars investigating
the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese. Because
Japanese and English are typologically different along a number of
dimensions, the studies in this book address issues which do not arise
with other L1-L2 pairings. In addition, they cover a wide range of
topics from the acquisiton of VP structures to Functional Category and
present new methods of data collection.

The studies all contribute to our understanding of these topics, and
they are of current interest to researchers working on Second Language
Acquisition.

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

FROM THE CONTENTS:

SHIGENORI WAKABAYASHI
Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA?

I VP STRUCTURES 

SHUNJI INAGAKI
Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs

MAKIKO HIRAKAWA 
Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English

II FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES 

KOJI SUDA AND SHIGENORI WAKABAYASHI 
The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by
Japanese learners at an early stage

TOMOHIKO SHIRAHATA 
The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of
English

HIROMASA OHBA 
Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL
learners' interlanguage grammars

CHIEKO KURIBARA 
Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn
CP structures in English

III NEW EMPIRICAL DATA

Shigenori Wakabayashi and Izumi Okawara 
Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions 

Yuichi Tomita, Kazuhiko Fukuda and Natsuko Tatsuta 
N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners:
What ERPs suggest

List of contributors
Index

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Linguistic Subfields: Cognitive Science
			Applied Linguistics
			Language Acquisition
			 
Subject Language(s): Japanese (Language code: JPN)
		 English (Language Code: ENG)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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