Yuichi Tamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 287006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuichi Tamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuichi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamura |
| SIGNATURE | TAMURA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2362-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Singular–plural asymmetry in L2 English number processing
Aims and Objectives: This study investigates whether Japanese learners of English automatically map English number morphology onto conceptual numbers in both directions. Two research questions guide the study: RQ1. Mismatch costs: Do L2 learners show reaction-time slowdowns when: (a) A singular noun is paired with a plural picture? (b) A plural noun is paired with a singular picture? L1 speakers serve as a baseline to establish expected mismatch …
Factors influencing L2 learners’ use of the English dative construction
This study examines when and how second language (L2) learners begin to exhibit sensitivity to key factors influencing the choice between the English double object and prepositional object constructions. While previous research has shown that such choices in native speakers are influenced by such factors as animacy, pronominality and verb bias, little is known about the developmental timing of these effects in L2 production. Using 5,785 dative co…
Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English
This study, based on Jiang’s (2000. Lexical representation and development in a second language. Applied Linguistics 21(1). 47–77) bilingual lexicon model, investigates the learnability of collocations among 34 Japanese EFL learners and examines the influence of their L1 on such learning. An acceptability judgment task assessed the knowledge of three different types of collocations: English-only collocations that cannot be directly translated int…
Rule-based or efficiency-driven processing of expletive there in English as a foreign language
Although native speakers (NSs) of English make plural agreement in preverbal-subject sentences (e.g., A pen and eraser * is/are... ), previous studies have demonstrated that they prefer singular – not plural – agreement between verbs and conjoined noun phrases (NPs) in expletive there constructions (e.g., there is/are a pen and an eraser... ), showing efficiency-driven processing prioritization of agreement between nearest constituents. This pape…
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping
This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number marking system. The study conducted an online sentence comprehension experiment with 96 L1-Japanese learners and 32 native speakers of English, wherein participants engaged in a self-paced reading with Stroop-like number judgment tasks. Participants were required to determine the nu…
Investigation of the Relationship Between Animacy and L2 Learners’ Acquisition of the English Plural Morpheme
Sandinista Narratives
Contexts behind differentiated responses to contract farming and large-scale land acquisitions in Central Mozambique
Written languaging with indirect feedback in writing revision
Recent studies have shown that languaging contributes to second language skill development. Feedback is often used in combination with languaging as a prompt of verbalization during writing revision, and this combination has shown the effect of increasing the quality of writing. The present study tested whether and how indirect feedback helps learners engage in languaging, and whether the effects continued with the second new writing on the same …
School Dress Codes in Post-Scarcity Japan
Focusing on dress codes, this article aims at providing a better understanding of current practices of youth socialization in Japanese schools and of cultural consequences of post-scarcity on schools. Since the late 1980s, there has been a national trend among Japanese secondary schools granting students more freedom of individual expression through attire and hairstyle. Using contradiction as a sensitizing concept, the author identifies several …
Human Rights Accusation and the School Rule Controversies in Japan
The social constructionist perspective stresses the importance of claims with moral appeals for successful social problems work. But it has not been clearly explored if social problem discourse with moral appeals will guarantee or at least help to rectify a problematic condition. This article examines the impact of moral discourse on the likelihood of social problem solution. Using school rule problems in Japan as an illustration, this article wi…
War and State Terrorism
The Continuity of Violence in the Stages of the Shi-Shi Movement of Nineteenth-Century Japan
Some scholars place violence as prominent in an earfy stage of a social movemel1t, whereas others argue that violence is cbaraaenstic of a later stage. This paper addresses the question of whether there is a specific movement stage that is particular!J charaaeni!d I!J violence through an analYsis of the shi-shi movement (1858)(1859)(1860)(1861)(1862)(1863)(1864). The shi-shi movemelzt helped create the revolutionary situation which cubnil1ated in…
Human Rights Accusation and the School Rule Controversies in Japan
The social constructionist perspective stresses the importance of claims with moral appeals for successful social problems work. But it has not been clearly explored if social problem discourse with moral appeals will guarantee or at least help to rectify a problematic condition. This article examines the impact of moral discourse on the likelihood of social problem solution. Using school rule problems in Japan as an illustration, this article wi…
The Continuity of Violence in the Stages of the Shi-Shi Movement of Nineteenth-Century Japan
Some scholars place violence as prominent in an earfy stage of a social movemel1t, whereas others argue that violence is cbaraaenstic of a later stage. This paper addresses the question of whether there is a specific movement stage that is particular!J charaaeni!d I!J violence through an analYsis of the shi-shi movement (1858)(1859)(1860)(1861)(1862)(1863)(1864). The shi-shi movemelzt helped create the revolutionary situation which cubnil1ated in…
The Continuity of Violence in the Stages of the Shi-Shi Movement of Nineteenth-Century Japan
Some scholars place violence as prominent in an earfy stage of a social movemel1t, whereas others argue that violence is cbaraaenstic of a later stage. This paper addresses the question of whether there is a specific movement stage that is particular!J charaaeni!d I!J violence through an analYsis of the shi-shi movement (1858)(1859)(1860)(1861)(1862)(1863)(1864). The shi-shi movemelzt helped create the revolutionary situation which cubnil1ated in…
War and State Terrorism
Human Rights Accusation and the School Rule Controversies in Japan
The social constructionist perspective stresses the importance of claims with moral appeals for successful social problems work. But it has not been clearly explored if social problem discourse with moral appeals will guarantee or at least help to rectify a problematic condition. This article examines the impact of moral discourse on the likelihood of social problem solution. Using school rule problems in Japan as an illustration, this article wi…
School Dress Codes in Post-Scarcity Japan
Focusing on dress codes, this article aims at providing a better understanding of current practices of youth socialization in Japanese schools and of cultural consequences of post-scarcity on schools. Since the late 1980s, there has been a national trend among Japanese secondary schools granting students more freedom of individual expression through attire and hairstyle. Using contradiction as a sensitizing concept, the author identifies several …
Written languaging with indirect feedback in writing revision
Recent studies have shown that languaging contributes to second language skill development. Feedback is often used in combination with languaging as a prompt of verbalization during writing revision, and this combination has shown the effect of increasing the quality of writing. The present study tested whether and how indirect feedback helps learners engage in languaging, and whether the effects continued with the second new writing on the same …
Contexts behind differentiated responses to contract farming and large-scale land acquisitions in Central Mozambique
Sandinista Narratives
Rule-based or efficiency-driven processing of expletive there in English as a foreign language
Although native speakers (NSs) of English make plural agreement in preverbal-subject sentences (e.g., A pen and eraser * is/are... ), previous studies have demonstrated that they prefer singular – not plural – agreement between verbs and conjoined noun phrases (NPs) in expletive there constructions (e.g., there is/are a pen and an eraser... ), showing efficiency-driven processing prioritization of agreement between nearest constituents. This pape…
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping
This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number marking system. The study conducted an online sentence comprehension experiment with 96 L1-Japanese learners and 32 native speakers of English, wherein participants engaged in a self-paced reading with Stroop-like number judgment tasks. Participants were required to determine the nu…
Investigation of the Relationship Between Animacy and L2 Learners’ Acquisition of the English Plural Morpheme
Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English
This study, based on Jiang’s (2000. Lexical representation and development in a second language. Applied Linguistics 21(1). 47–77) bilingual lexicon model, investigates the learnability of collocations among 34 Japanese EFL learners and examines the influence of their L1 on such learning. An acceptability judgment task assessed the knowledge of three different types of collocations: English-only collocations that cannot be directly translated int…
Singular–plural asymmetry in L2 English number processing
Aims and Objectives: This study investigates whether Japanese learners of English automatically map English number morphology onto conceptual numbers in both directions. Two research questions guide the study: RQ1. Mismatch costs: Do L2 learners show reaction-time slowdowns when: (a) A singular noun is paired with a plural picture? (b) A plural noun is paired with a singular picture? L1 speakers serve as a baseline to establish expected mismatch …
Factors influencing L2 learners’ use of the English dative construction
This study examines when and how second language (L2) learners begin to exhibit sensitivity to key factors influencing the choice between the English double object and prepositional object constructions. While previous research has shown that such choices in native speakers are influenced by such factors as animacy, pronominality and verb bias, little is known about the developmental timing of these effects in L2 production. Using 5,785 dative co…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Noun (4 works) · Plural (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)