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Sato, Yutaka; Kato, Mahoko; Mazuka, Reiko – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The Japanese language has single/geminate obstruents characterized by durational difference in closure/frication as part of the phonemic repertoire used to distinguish word meanings. We first evaluated infants' abilities to discriminate naturally uttered single/geminate obstruents (/pata/ and /patta/) using the visual habituation-dishabituation…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Japanese
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Zdorenko, Tatiana; Paradis, Johanne – Second Language Research, 2008
The data for this study consisted of a longitudinal corpus of narratives from 17 English second language (L2) children, mean age of 5;4 years at the outset, with first languages (Lls) that do not have definite/indefinite articles (Chinese, Korean and Japanese) and Lls that do have article systems (Spanish, Romanian and Arabic). We examined these…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Child Language, English (Second Language)
Joseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. – 1987
A collection of essays marking the retirement of Ilse Lehiste, chair of the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University (1967-71 and 1985-87) includes the following contributions by her colleagues: "On Incomplete Mutations in Breton"; "Perceived P-Center Location in English and Japanese"; "Ordering Paradoxes and…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Bulgarian, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)