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Explicit instruction, input flood or study abroad: Which helps Japanese learners of English acquire adjective ordering? by Hirakawa, Makiko, Shibuya, Mayumi, Endo, Marie

“…This article explores what kind of second language (L2) input influences Japanese learners’ acquisition of adjective ordering restrictions (AOR) in English…”
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Acquiring antecedents for reflexives when both L1 and L2 permit long-distance binding by Umeda, Mari, Takeda, Kazue, Hirakawa, Makiko, Fukuda, Michiko, Hirakawa, Yahiro, Matthews, John, Snape, Neal

“…The present study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the Japanese reflexive zibun (self) by Chinese-speaking learners. The reflexive zibun allows…”
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Developmental Sentence Scoring for Japanese by Miyata, Susanne, MacWhinney, Brian, Otomo, Kiyoshi, Sirai, Hidetosi, Oshima-Takane, Yuriko, Hirakawa, Makiko, Shirai, Yasuhiro, Sugiura, Masatoshi, Itoh, Keiko

“…This article reports on the development and use of the Developmental Sentence Scoring for Japanese (DSSJ), a new morpho-syntactical measure for Japanese…”
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L2 ACQUISITION OF JAPANESE UNACCUSATIVE VERBS by Hirakawa, Makiko

“…This paper reports on an experimental study that investigates the acquisition of Japanese unaccusative verbs by English-speaking learners. Following Levin and…”
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A study of the L2 acquisition of English reflexives by Hirakawa, Makiko

“…This paper reports on an experimental study which was conducted to examine how native speakers of Japanese acquire syntactic properties of English reflexive…”
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Unaccusativity in second language Japanese and English by Hirakawa, Makiko

“…This thesis investigates L2 acquisition of intransitive verb constructions in Japanese and English. Within the Generative framework, the Unaccusative…”
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Passive' unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited by Hirakawa, Makiko

“…Previous studies have reported that L2 learners of English with various L1 backgrounds produce/accept non-target forms in which unaccusative verbs appear in…”
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More evidence on the knowledge of unaccusativity in L2 Japanese by Hirakawa, Makiko

“…This article presents an experiment that examines L2 knowledge of deep & surface unaccusativity in Japanese. English-speaking & Chinese-speaking learners are…”
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Linguistic theory and second language acquisition the acquisition of English reflexives by native speakers of Japanese by Hirakawa, Makiko

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