On the Acquisition of Causatives in Japanese

Children's Acquisition of Causatives and Bi-clausality in Japanese: An Experimental Study

The aim of this study is to shed light on children's comprehension of Japanese causative constructions by looking at experimental data. Since the 1960's, a number of studies on Japanese causatives have been done. Despite the fact that there is a fair amount of work in this area, there are only a few acquisition studies. Furthermore, there are only a few studies on acquisition of complex complem...

Child Causatives: Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese

Phonological Awareness Impact on Articulatory Accuracy of the Spanish Liquid [r] in Japanese FL Learners of Spanish

Foreign language learners tend to avoid phonological difficulties and simply transfer sounds whether from their L1 or any pre-existing L2. Phonological awareness (PA) gives students an active role in understanding their own potential in improving pronunciation through several methods. However, such methods are likely to be restricted to only passive learning methods, such as repetition, reading...

A Pregroup Analysis of Japanese Causatives

We explore a computational algebraic approach to grammar via pregroups. We examine how the structures of Japanese causatives can be treated in the framework of a pregroup grammar. In our grammar, the dictionary assigns one or more syntactic types to each word and the grammar rules are used to infer types to strings of words. We developed a practical parser representing our pregroup grammar, whi...

Phonological Awareness Impact on Articulatory Accuracy of the Spanish Liquid [r] in Japanese FL Learners of Spanish

Foreign language learners tend to avoid phonological difficulties and simply transfer sounds whether from their L1 or any pre-existing L2. Phonological awareness (PA) gives students an active role in understanding their own potential in improving pronunciation through several methods. However, such methods are likely to be restricted to only passive learning methods, such as repetition, reading...