Mineharu Nakayama
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3843071 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mineharu Nakayama |
| NOMBRES | Mineharu |
| APELLIDO | Nakayama |
| FIRMA | NAKAYAMA M |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Guest editor’s notes
Issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives
Navigating Mandarin Subtleties
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese
This study reports findings from two experiments on backward anaphora by second language (L2) learners of English, Mandarin, and Japanese, examining the effects of first language (L1) systems and whether a pronoun resolution pattern requiring syntax–discourse integration can be successfully acquired. The findings from Experiment 1 comparing English and Mandarin demonstrate that the availability of positive evidence for Mandarin-speaking learners …
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English
This study compared the perception of English semivowels /j/ and /w/ and their corresponding vowels /i/ and /u/ by two groups of Japanese-speaking learners of English: foreign language (FL) learners in Japan and second language learners who were initially FL learners (FL-L2). The phonological targets were /i/ and /u/ with and without preceding /j/ and /w/, respectively (/ji/-/i/ and /wu/-/u/). Discrimination and identification results showed that…
Notes on the acquisition of L2 English intervention structures
This paper discusses Japanese-speaking EFL learners’ acquisition of English object relative clauses (ORC), which have intervention (Relativized Minimality) structures. Specifically, we contrast their early understanding of the ORC and the Subject Control constructions with their late understanding of the Subject Raising ( seem ) construction that exhibits a structural effect of locality on the filler-gap relation. We argue that relativization and…
Microvariation in L2 acquisition of backward anaphora
There are crosslinguistic variations for backward anaphora coreference readings although the languages, such as English, Italian, Russian, and Mandarin, that have been experimentally studied are constrained by Principle C. English allows backward anaphora coreference readings between the pronoun and the antecedent NP for sentences like “While he was dancing, Kermit ate the pizza”, but languages like Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese prohibit the co…
Guest editor’s notes
Special Section Editors’ Notes
Japanese responses , , and
Implicit Arguments in Japanese Potentials and Resultatives
Many, if not all, languages possess syntactic constructions in which covert arguments, often referred to as “implicit arguments”, are required. While the implicit arguments in Western languages have received considerable attention, the study of the same topic in non-Western languages such as Japanese has been neglected. In this article, the nature of the implicit arguments of the potential and resultative constructions in Japanese is investigated…
Purpose clauses in Japanese
Japanese verbal noun constructions
Remarks on Japanese subjects
Performance factors in subject-auxiliary inversion by children
Children's reported copying-without-deletion errors, like ‘ Whose is that is? ’, have often been interpreted as the result of a non-adult rule of subject–aux inversion. By contrast, this study presents a performance account of these errors and supports this account by investigating what factors impede children's performance. Using an elicitation task, 16 test sentences were evoked from 16 3- to 5-year-old children. In particular, errors appeared …
Structure Dependence in Grammar Formation
A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to account for language acquisition. At the heart of the problem is the poverty of the stimulus, which underdetermines the hypotheses that children formulate. Generative grammar proposes that the form for expressing rules is innately constrained, and one putative constraint is structure-dependence. The present study subjected this proposal to an empirical test. In the first experiment, yes/no questions—a…
Structure Dependence in Grammar Formation
A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to account for language acquisition. At the heart of the problem is the poverty of the stimulus, which underdetermines the hypotheses that children formulate. Generative grammar proposes that the form for expressing rules is innately constrained, and one putative constraint is structure-dependence. The present study subjected this proposal to an empirical test. In the first experiment, yes/no questions—a…
Remarks on Japanese subjects
Japanese responses , , and
Japanese verbal noun constructions
Purpose clauses in Japanese
Performance factors in subject-auxiliary inversion by children
Children's reported copying-without-deletion errors, like ‘ Whose is that is? ’, have often been interpreted as the result of a non-adult rule of subject–aux inversion. By contrast, this study presents a performance account of these errors and supports this account by investigating what factors impede children's performance. Using an elicitation task, 16 test sentences were evoked from 16 3- to 5-year-old children. In particular, errors appeared …
Structure Dependence in Grammar Formation
A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to account for language acquisition. At the heart of the problem is the poverty of the stimulus, which underdetermines the hypotheses that children formulate. Generative grammar proposes that the form for expressing rules is innately constrained, and one putative constraint is structure-dependence. The present study subjected this proposal to an empirical test. In the first experiment, yes/no questions—a…
Remarks on Japanese subjects
Purpose clauses in Japanese
Japanese verbal noun constructions
Implicit Arguments in Japanese Potentials and Resultatives
Many, if not all, languages possess syntactic constructions in which covert arguments, often referred to as “implicit arguments”, are required. While the implicit arguments in Western languages have received considerable attention, the study of the same topic in non-Western languages such as Japanese has been neglected. In this article, the nature of the implicit arguments of the potential and resultative constructions in Japanese is investigated…
Japanese responses , , and
Special Section Editors’ Notes
Notes on the acquisition of L2 English intervention structures
This paper discusses Japanese-speaking EFL learners’ acquisition of English object relative clauses (ORC), which have intervention (Relativized Minimality) structures. Specifically, we contrast their early understanding of the ORC and the Subject Control constructions with their late understanding of the Subject Raising ( seem ) construction that exhibits a structural effect of locality on the filler-gap relation. We argue that relativization and…
Microvariation in L2 acquisition of backward anaphora
There are crosslinguistic variations for backward anaphora coreference readings although the languages, such as English, Italian, Russian, and Mandarin, that have been experimentally studied are constrained by Principle C. English allows backward anaphora coreference readings between the pronoun and the antecedent NP for sentences like “While he was dancing, Kermit ate the pizza”, but languages like Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese prohibit the co…
Guest editor’s notes
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese
This study reports findings from two experiments on backward anaphora by second language (L2) learners of English, Mandarin, and Japanese, examining the effects of first language (L1) systems and whether a pronoun resolution pattern requiring syntax–discourse integration can be successfully acquired. The findings from Experiment 1 comparing English and Mandarin demonstrate that the availability of positive evidence for Mandarin-speaking learners …
Perception of English semivowels by Japanese-speaking learners of English
This study compared the perception of English semivowels /j/ and /w/ and their corresponding vowels /i/ and /u/ by two groups of Japanese-speaking learners of English: foreign language (FL) learners in Japan and second language learners who were initially FL learners (FL-L2). The phonological targets were /i/ and /u/ with and without preceding /j/ and /w/, respectively (/ji/-/i/ and /wu/-/u/). Discrimination and identification results showed that…
Guest editor’s notes
Issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives
Navigating Mandarin Subtleties
Linguistics (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (5 obras) · Mandarin Chinese (4 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (3 obras)