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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 20Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (277 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110176599
  • 9783110892468
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428/.0089/956 21
LOC classification:
  • PE1130.J3 G46 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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