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The handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics. Volume II, Japanese

Mineharu Nakayama (Editor), Reiko Mazuka (Editor), Yasuhiro Shirai (Editor), Ping Li (Editor)
This handbook, the second in a three-volume series on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Japanese. Topics covered include first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition.
Print Book, English, 2015
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2015
xvii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781107504578, 1107504570
1107212701
Part I. Language Acquisition: 1. Ontogeny of language Nubou Masataka; 2. Caregiver's speech Toshiki Murase and Tamiko Ogura; 3. The intrinsic linkage between gesture and speech in the prelinguistic stage Keiko Ejiri and Nobuko Uchida; 4. Infant speech perception Akiko Hayashi; 5. Phonological acquisition Mitsuhiko Ohta; 6. Mechanism of lexical development: implications from Japanese children's word learning Mutsumi Imai; 7. The acquisition of nouns and verbs in Japanese Yuriko Oshima-Takane; 8. The acquisition of verbal nouns Yutaka Sato and Yoshi Yamashita; 9. The acquisition of Japanese numeral classifiers Kasumi Yamamoto; 10. The acquisition of case markers Hiromi Morikawa; 11. The acquisition of tense and aspect Yasuhiro Shirai; 12. On the origin of children's errors: the case of Japanese negation and direct passive Tetsuya Sano; 13. Binding theory in UG and first language acquisition of Japanese Barbara Lust; 14. The acquisition of the particles, 'ne', 'yo' and 'no' Haruko Minegishi Cook; 15. The acquisition of linguistic politeness in Japanese Keiko Nakamura; 16. Children's narrative structures Masahiko Minami; 17. Memory talk and testimony in children Makiko Naka; 18. Developmental dyslexia Jun Yamada; 19. Japanese sign language Takashi Torigoe; 20. The role of an innate acquisition device in second language acquisition Kazue Kanno; 21. Japanese, the grammar of reflexives, and second language acquisition Margaret Thomas; 22. Processes in L2 Japanese sentence production Noriko Iwasaki; 23. Development of lexical competence among second-language readers Keiko Koda; 24. Reading in Japanese as a second language Yukie Horiba; 25. International code-switching in Japanese and English Miwa Nishimura; Part II. Language Processing: 26. Phonetic and phonological organizations of speech in Japanese Haruo Kubozono; 27. Speech segmentation by Japanese listeners: its language-specificity and language-universality Takashi Otake; 28. Prosody in sentence processing Jennifer Venditti; 29. Speech errors Yasushi Terao; 30. Effects of word properties on Japanese sentence processing Tadahisa Kondo and Reiko Mazuka; 31. Orthographic processing Hirofumi Saito; 32. Lexical access Taeko Wydell; 33. Incrementality in Japanese sentence processing Yuki Kamide; 34. Processing alternative word orders Edson Miyamoto; 35. Processing of relative clauses in Japanese: coping with multiple ambiguities Yuki Hirose; 36. Processing of empty categories in Japanese Tsutomu Sakamoto; 37. Difficulty of certain sentence constructions in comprehension Mineharu Nakayama, Shravan Vashisth and Richard L. Lewis; 38. Reading and working memory Mariko Osaka; 39. Sentence production in Japanese Hiroko Yamashita and Franklin Chang; 40. Neural basis of syntactic processing in Japanese Hiroko Hagiwara; 41. The competition model Yoshinori Sasaki and Brian McWhinney; 42. Connectionist models Michiro Negishi; 43. Computational linguistics Masayuki Asahara, Yasuharu Den and Yuji Matsumoto; 44. Language and gesture as a single communicative system Nobuhiro Furuyama.
Originally published: 2006