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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Tomoko  Ishizuka
Institution:	University of California, Los Angeles
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Homepage:	http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/ishizuka/index.htm
State and/or Country:	CA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Syntax
Dissertation Abstract:	Toward a Unified Analysis of Passives in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach
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