This study investigates the knowledge of unaccusativity in Japanese native, heritage, and second/foreign language speakers with respect to licensing of floating numeral quantifiers (FNQs) by unaccusative and unergative subjects (the "FNQ diagnostic"). Two acceptability judgment experiments were conducted to examine (i) whether and how…

For a number of years, Kent Sakoda has been teaching at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in the Department of Second Language Studies. His course, "Pidgin and Creole English in Hawai'i," is popular among students on campus. He has also taught at Hawai'i Pacific University. Because of his expertise on the grammar of Pidgin (Hawai'i…

Responds to Kanno's article (see FL 528 536), which described studies of adult American learners of Japanese and their knowledge of two universal grammar (UG) principles and noted various lateral inconsistencies. This commentary suggests that another form of lateral inconsistency, arising from failure to replicate Kanno's findings in another adult…

A SUMMER PROGRAM FOR TESTING AND EVALUATING MATERIALS DEVELOPED AT THE HAWAII CURRICULUM CENTER WAS CARRIED OUT IN JUNE AND JULY, 1967, AT THE UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL IN HONOLULU. THE PRIMARY GRADES LANGUAGE CLASS, USING FIRST-YEAR LANGUAGE MATERIALS WHICH STRESSED AURAL-ORAL SKILLS, READING, AND WRITING, ALSO TRIED OUT NEW METHODS IN…