Generative approaches to the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese / edited by Shigenori Wakabayashi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wakabayashi, Shigenori, 1962-

Series:

Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

Studies on language acquisition ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Japanese speakers.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Japanese.

Japanese language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Grammar, Generative.

English language--Grammar, Generative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: What do Japanese learners of English tell us about SLA? / Wakabayashi, Shigenori

I: VP structures

Japanese learners' acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PPs / Inagaki, Shunji

Unaccusatives versus passives in L2 English / Hirakawa, Makiko

II: Functional categories

The acquisition of the nominative and accusative cases in English by Japanese learners at an early stage / Suda, Koji / Wakabayashi, Shigenori

The acquisition of a second language C-system by Japanese learners of English / Shirahata, Tomohiko

Pied-piping and stranding in oblique relative clauses in Japanese EFL learners' interlanguage grammars / Ohba, Hiromasa

Is an interlanguage a "possible grammar"?: How Japanese speakers learn CP structures in English / Kuribara, Chieko

III: New empirical data

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

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

List of contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110892468

3110892464

OCLC:

979588651