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

Generative Approaches to the Acquisition of English by Native Speakers of Japanese / / ed. by Shigenori Wakabayashi.

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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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Fukuda, Kazuhiko,
Hirakawa, Makiko,
Inagaki, Shunji,
Kuribara, Chieko,
Ohba, Hiromasa,
Okawara, Izumi,
Shirahata, Tomohiko,
Suda, Koji,
Tatsuta, Natsuko,
Tomita, Yuichi,
Wakabayashi, Shigenori,
HerausgeberIn:
Wakabayashi, Shigenori,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2003
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (277 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA?
  • I: VP structures
  • Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs
  • Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English
  • II: Functional categories
  • The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage
  • The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English
  • Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars
  • Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English
  • III: New empirical data
  • Japanese learners' errors on long distance wh-questions
  • N400 in the brain potential responses of second language learners: What ERPs suggest
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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