Generative approaches to the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shigenori Wakabayashi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785826503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
• ISBN: 3-11-089246-4
• Edizione: [Reprint 2011]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: Studies on language acquisition ; ; 20
• Classificazione: HD 153
• Altri autori (Persone): WakabayashiShigenori <1962->
• Disciplina: 428/.0089/956
• Soggetti: English language - Study and teaching - Japanese speakers; English language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese; Japanese language - Grammar, Comparative - English; Japanese language - Grammar, Generative; English language - Grammar, Generative
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.