Overview

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 acquisition 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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Author:   Shigenori Wakabayashi
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   Reprint 2011
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9783110176599

ISBN 10:   3110176599
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   13 December 2002
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

VP structures Shunji Inagaki Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs Makiko Hirakawa Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English 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 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

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

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